Own Your Words
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About This Episode
This episode of DevNTell, hosted by Narb, features Nikita Grishin, also known as mgrin. Nikita presents his project, "Own Your Words," which allows users to mint their social media presence and individual posts as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Initially conceptualized as a learning exercise and a potential improvement over authentication tools like Collab.Land, the project evolved into a sophisticated platform involving complex smart contracts, custom oracles, and encrypted backend systems. Nikita demonstrates the minting process for both account ownership and specific tweets, explains the underlying technical architecture (including the use of Solidity, NestJS, and custom oracles), and discusses the project's roadmap, which includes expanding support for other social platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
Key Takeaways
The project 'Own Your Words' provides a mechanism for users to verifiably own their social media accounts and content by storing them as NFTs on-chain.
Nikita's initial estimate of two weeks for the project ballooned to four months due to the complexity of building custom oracles and handling off-chain API calls.
The project uses custom oracles and an encrypted backend to securely bridge Web2 social media data with Web3 on-chain metadata while maintaining privacy for authentication tokens.
The use of upgradeable smart contracts (OpenZeppelin) allows the platform to easily add support for new social networks without deploying new core contracts.
A key motivation was to create a more seamless and user-friendly alternative to existing bot-based account verification methods used in DAOs.
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Nikita Grishin
Founder @ Own Your Words
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