HE(ART)

The creator economy is a $105 billion/year industry. HE(ART) aims to empower and inspire creativity and positive social impact using auctionable art and NFTs. We have created a platform where people can vote on which artists are to come together, collaborate to create art and livestream their process to increase user engagement and participation, and later mint the final piece as an NFT that is auctioned off for a good cause. Many social activists get censored or don’t reach the right audiences related to their causes. Additionally, several start off alone and take time to build a community base especially in times like this, where there’s a pressing cause, too much risk associated. HE(ART) is a way to bring artists together to bring more visibility to raise funds for social good, giving activist a voice and making this collaboration interactive, impactful, and meaningful. Art therapy and expression also act as forms or expression, freedom, culture, and society. This platform would be backed by a DAO to make it easier for the community to feel in power and be properly rewarded.

He(ART) is mainly a front-end application built using Vue.js 3, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and deployed on Netlify. We utilize LivePeer to upload a video of the artist performing their work and display it on the live streaming page. Once the artists are done with their work, the Tatum API is used to upload the image and metadata to IPFS, where the NFT is then minted on the Polygon Mumbai testnet and can be viewed on Opensea. An auction smart contract that is deployed on Mumbai is called once the NFT is minted. This smart contracts starts an auction and takes bids from users wanting the NFT. Once a winner is determined the NFT is transferred to their account and the accumulated funds are sent to the public good project. We use the Covalent API to pull the metadata of the NFT to display on the auction page and also make use of EPNS to send notifications of streaming updates, auction start and end, and when someone has placed a new bid.