How to start an NFT community 🌇

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Over the past two years, I’ve written many guides on how to create your own NFTs via things like: Bueno, manifold, Zoramore.

But what if you’re looking to start a full-fledged project rather than just creating a standalone NFT drop?

To do that, you need to nurture and support a growing community around your project!

Fortunately, there have never been more resources available when it comes to launching and managing your own NFT community. In today’s post, let’s think about how to proceed here as a beginner.

-WMP

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Let’s say you’re an NFT artist with about 100 holders. You might be interested in creating a community lounge where owners can connect, have intimate conversations, and get future updates on your work.

The community’s “tech stack” needs for this solo creator, for example, the 10k PFP project looking to start raising funds to fund ongoing community initiatives, noun builder It has built-in governance and financial systems.

For example, the leader of the popular 10k PFP project mentioned earlier, Safe’s 3-of-5 multisig walletProjects started via Nouns Builder already have native treasures, so multisig can be avoided. Also, a solo he artist with 100 holders might avoid the Treasury entirely if he just wants to keep things simple.

That said, research the nature of your community and choose the appropriate financial stack accordingly.

Short for communication, “Comms” is about just that, communication to connect with your audience.

If you don’t create and manage community communications, owners and beyond will not know how to participate in the community and will not be able to keep up with ongoing updates to the project.

So at least for the least viable “broad and deep” communication approach, the combination of Twitter + mirror accounts is a no-brainer so far.

Like it or not, Twitter is still the most active NFT forum in the world, so anything you tweet or announce on Twitter is public and good to prevent fake accounts from impersonating your project. It’s a way.And mirror is the most popular web3 publishing service Now with subscriptions, it’s the perfect way to make an announcement and connect with web3’s most loyal fans.

But if you don’t want to, there’s no reason to stay with Twitter and Mirror. At this point, it also makes a lot of sense to start a communication presence on web3 social media risers such as: fur caster and lens But YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc. may also be suitable for your project. It’s up to you, but whatever you do, establish a solid base of communication.

A “forum” here is the main place where the community can come together, connect, and discuss.

Of course, some NFT projects like Nouns DAO have Literal discourse forum You can also hash topics in an asynchronous and organized way. And if you’re going in the governance-focused direction, a literal forum might be a good complement to your project as well.

However, the main forum for community discussion and interaction is probably discord right now. This is the standard in his DeFi and NFT communities today, so most viewers will be familiar and comfortable using it. Additionally, Discord offers voice, video, and text capabilities, so it can be used to host everything from casual general chats to weekly town halls.

In addition, Collab.Land (just announced an airdrop) and Guild make it easy to automate NFT community membership management. Let’s say you want to tokengate a specific chat in your Discord server to a specific her NFT owner in your community. You can do this in a few steps using something like Guild.

If you decide to work with the community to promote community governance initiatives, you will need a voting system that allows you to easily connect your NFT community. here, snap shot An excellent resource to consider.

For example, once upon a time the Bud Light brand properly purchased beer noun 179, and the company wanted to allow the community of N3XT NFT owners to decide how to continue voting on this noun.As you can see in the screenshot above, for this they use changed to snapshot Here, N3XT owners (myself included) collectively vote on the decisions made by Noun 179 to this day. If you need a project to vote for, Snapshot is definitely solid.

To be together is to experience things together. In the context of your community, one simple accomplishment for building camaraderie is doing her NFT minting to commemorate these shared experiences.

These mints can be badges of honor, collectibles, or proof of future community activities. One popular option here is the POAP ( Proof of Attendance Protocol). for example, POA Patong is a service that allows you to consign a design contest for the commemorative NFT mint.

Or, if you prefer a more DIY approach, you can always use projects like Manifold and Zora to create your own community open editions, free mints, and more. For example, I contributed to his NFT curation protocol JPG and created a free mint earlier this year. “Through a steady diffusion calledthe first canonist‘ marks the first month our community began working together. Bringing together a curated registry of NFT tokensThese mints are fun, easy, and help build on-chain and off-chain bonds.

There are many opportunities when it comes to launching and managing your own NFT community, including building connections, engagement, brand awareness, and revenue. All good things, right?

At the same time, however, launching your own NFT community also comes with many challenges, such as ongoing content moderation and community management efforts. You don’t have to jump into this daunting task mindlessly, but know that it can be very rewarding in many ways.

• Exploring NFT community tools: Check out the NFT community tools currently available, from Collab.Land to Nouns Builder 🤝

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William M. Peester is a professional writer and creator of metaversal— Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the crypto economy. Recently, we also provide content to Bankless, JPG, etc.

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