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Non Fungible Tokens

In contrast with fungible tokens, non-fungible tokens (NFT) are unitary and therefore unique. This makes NFTs ideal to represent ownership of assets such as a piece of digital content, or a ticket for an event.

As with fungible tokens, NFTs are not stored in the user's wallet, instead, each NFT lives in a NFT contract. The NFT contract works as a bookkeeper, this is: it is in charge of handling the creation, storage and transfers of NFTs.

In order for a contract to be considered a NFT-contract it has to follow the NEP-171 and NEP-177 standards. The NEP-171 & NEP-177 standards explain the minimum interface required to be implemented, as well as the expected functionality.

Reference Implementation

We provide a reference implementation ready to be deployed and use.

NFT & Marketplaces

Be mindful of not confusing an NFT with an NFT-marketplace. NFT simply store information (metadata), while NFT-marketplaces are contracts where NFT can be listed and exchanged for a price.

Minting an NFT​

In order to create a new NFT (a.k.a. mint it) you need first to deploy an NFT contract and initialize it with an owner. Currently, the owner simply sets an internal variable (Contract.owner_id), meaning it is NOT the default owner of all minted NFTs.

Once deployed and initialized, you can call the nft_mint method. You will need to pass as parameters a unique id, an owner, the token's metadata, and (optionally) royalties. The metadata will include information such as the title, a description, and an URL to associated media.

# 1. Deploy the contract in a testnet account
near dev-deploy --wasmFile non_fungible_token.wasm

# 2. Initialize NFT contract

# 3. Mint an NFT
near call <nft-contract> nft_mint '{"token_id": "<token-unique-id>", "receiver_id": "<nft-owner-account>", "token_metadata": {"title": "<title>", "description": "<description>", "media": "<url>" }, "royalties": {"<account>" : <percentage>, "<account>" : <percentage>}}' --accountId <your-account>

정보

See the metadata standard for the full list of TokenMetadata parameters.

팁

Implement events to be able to track NFT mints in real time.

Minting Collections​

Many times people want to create multiple 100 copies of an NFT (this is called a collection). In such cases, what you actually need to do is to mint 100 different NFTs with the same metadata (but different token-id).

Royalties​

You might have noticed that one of the parameters is a structure called royalties. Royalties enable you to create a list of users that should get paid when the token is sell in a marketplace. For example, if anna has 5% of royalties, each time the NFT is sell, anna should get a 5% of the selling price.

Querying Metadata​

You can query the NFT's metadata by calling the nft_metadata.

near view <nft-contract> nft_metadata

Approving Users​

You can authorize other users to transfer an NFT you own. This is useful, for example, to enable listing your NFT in a marketplace. In such scenario, you trust that the marketplace will only transfer the NFT upon receiving a certain amount of money in exchange.

near call <nft-contract> nft_approve '{
 "token_id": "<token-unique-id>",
 "account_id": "<authorized-account>",
 "msg": "<json-structure>"
}' --accountId <your-account> --depositYocto 1

정보

If the msg parameter is included, then a cross-contract call will be made to <authorized_account>.nft_on_approve(msg). Which in turn will make a callback to nft_resolve_transfer in your NFT contract.

Transferring an NFT​

Transferring an NFT can happen in two scenarios: (1) you ask to transfer an NFT, and (2) an authorized account asks to transfer the NFT. In both cases, it is necessary to invoke the nft_transfer method, indicating the token id, the receiver, and an (optionally) an approval_id.

near call <nft-contract> nft_transfer '{"receiver_id": "<receiver-account>", "token_id": "<token-unique-id>"}' --accountId <your-account> --depositYocto 1
팁

Implement events to be able to track NFT transfers in real time.

Attaching NFTs to a Call​

Natively, only NEAR tokens (Ⓝ) can be attached to a method calls. However, the NFT standard enables to attach a non-fungible tokens in a call by using the NFT-contract as intermediary. This means that, instead of you attaching tokens directly to the call, you ask the NFT-contract to do both a transfer and a method call in your name.

near call <nft-contract> nft_transfer_call '{"receiver_id": "<receiver-contract>", "token_id": "<token_id>", "msg": "<a-string-message>"}' --accountId <your-account> --depositYocto 1
정보

Optionally, a memo parameter can be passed to provide more information to your contract.

How Does it Work?​

Assume you want to attach an NFT (🎫) to a call on the receiver contract. The workflow is as follows:

  1. You call nft_transfer_call in the NFT-contract passing: the receiver, a message, and the token-id of 🎫.
  2. The NFT contract transfers the NFT 🎫 to the receiver.
  3. The NFT contract calls receiver.nft_on_transfer(sender, token-owner, token-id, msg).
  4. The NFT contract handles errors in the nft_resolve_transfer callback.
  5. The NFT contract returns true if it succeeded.

The nft_on_transfer method​

From the workflow above it follows that the receiver we want to call needs to implement the nft_on_transfer method. When executed, such method will know:

  • Who is sending the NFT, since it is a parameter
  • Who is the current owner, since it is a parameter
  • Which NFT was transferred, since it is a parameter.
  • If there are any parameters encoded as a message

The nft_on_transfer must return true if the NFT has to be returned to the sender.

Events​

You can track real time events (such as transfers) by implementing the NFT Event Standards. Events are simple to use, because they are just login messages formatted in a standardize way. Since these logged messages are public, a service can then be built to track them in real time.