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Getting into the NFT space was interesting for us. Many tutorials, tools, and websites helped us to create our very own Corona Generation NFT collection. 

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Let us thank:

• Robyn Conti and John Schmidt for a great high-level overview about NFTs on Forbes.com

• Sumi Mudgil for the tutorial on ethereum.org

• The opensea.io team for their getting started section

• There are many tutorials on how to create an NFT collection. The ones most helpful to us were Rounak Banik's Smart Contract tutorial on dev.to, codeStACKr's 1 Hour NFT Collection YouTube video, a 7 min YouTube vide tutorial by Osaka that might work for less complex NFT collections

• The most solid technical foundation was the HashLips Art Engine

• When testing on the Blockchain test network, you always need to pay transaction fees. https://faucets.chain.link/rinkeby helped us with the necessary liquidity

• Mark Kantrowitz for the list for the list of names we used to give our Corona Generation members a name

 

From a technology side, this project is interesting as well. We were excited to learning about:

• Polygon as our Blockchain of choice

• Polygonscan.com to "search" the Polygon Blockchain and act as the User Interface to the Polygon Blockchain

• Solidity to write smart contracts and HardHat for Smart Contract deployment

• the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) as the permanent and distributed file storage

• OpenSea.io as the largest NFT marketplace

• MetaMask as a Web3 wallet

• Node.js, Visual Studio Code and the Bash Command Line Interface as a universal toolsets to get the job done