The ongoing Nexa Community Event was set to finish on Friday, 13 June 2025, but due to minting issues, it will be extended for two more weeks, until 27 June 2025. Active community participation provided the load needed for the platform to reveal underlying issues that could be expected to appear, and we are genuinely thankful for this engagement and patience. It is already possible to mint new NFTs and submit your created collections. However, users may still experience some issues. Please stay patient and report any problems to the community managers. In the meantime, we are actively working to address them.
What Happened
To make rapid progress with a small team we must “move quickly and break stuff” (at least for application level software). This is the philosophy that has driven software innovation so rapidly in the last few decades and is now being used by SpaceX to achieve their notable successes. Perhaps we lit the fuse on this community event prematurely, resulting in a few “rapid unscheduled unavailability” issues in the site. However, just like with the Starship, it was only with you all hammering on the site that we were able to see some of the problems and fix them. You all use the site differently than we do, and you use it at the same time. And the pressure inspired development performance: we’ve delivered hot fixes across the entire software stack multiple times during this event, ranging from the enterprise wallet (occasionally counting creation authorities as NFTs, transaction “sanity check” complaining that the partial transaction was unsigned – its supposed to be unsigned), the Niftyart back end (counted reserved-but-unused creation authorities as available, causing it to not create new authorities when needed), to the front end (search box problems, “for sale” not updating the screen, etc). Occasionally, the fix was worse than the problem (sorry about that!), but most importantly great progress is being made!
Two More Weeks to Enter
The NiftyArt event will be extended for two more weeks, until 27 June 2025. You can already mint new NFTs and continue submitting your entries, and those who don’t have a collection yet can create new ones. Going forward, an official announcement will be made before the final phase of the event, and voting will take place in a newly created thread containing all the entries to ensure fair participation.
How To Enter
Participation in the event remains the same.
- Prepare a mini collection of 20 NFTs on the NiftyArt.cash platform.
- Once deployed, reply to the official event post on X with an NFT image from your collection, add a brief description and a link to a series on the Nexa explorer.
- That’s it! Find a guide on how to create an NFT here.
To Wrap Up
We apologize for any inconvenience and sincerely thank the community for your active participation in the event and for helping to uncover these issues. Please use this opportunity to report any problems or share feedback with the team, and meanwhile, we’re actively working to improve your user experience.