The original lexiconomy was built in early 2018 and launched on the Ethereum mainnet on March 28, 2019. Like many other projects of its time, the lexiconomy was inspired by CryptoKitties, which paved the way for the ERC-721 standard. The lexiconomy explored concepts of provable creation and ownership, composability, and token economics unlocked by the nascent NFT and web3 ecosystem.
The lexiconomy, true to its name, breaks language down into ownable, composable, and trade-able parts. Every letter, symbol, word, or phrase is a lemma and every lemma is a unique, ownable NFT. The project was intended to be provocative, absurd, and playful, much like the internet itself.
While at Viaduct, I took three years off from the crypto and web3 space. In those years, the NFT ecosystem exploded. Interest peaked, I decided to dust off the old lexiconomy repositories. After reviewing the state of the lexiconomy and NFT ecosystem, I felt a rewrite and redesign was appropriate for a number of reasons, including:
- Opportunity to dive back into the Solidity and web3 developer tooling and see how what has changed.
- Unabled to verify ownership and the source code of original contract on Etherscan. This caused incompatibility issues with downstream NFT and DApp marketplaces that relied on Etherscan.
- Breaking changes in web3 libraries (I'm looking at you web3.js and truffle) made the previous app unmaintainable without a serious re-write.
- Token metadata and images became the focal point of NFTs. The original lexiconomy was focused exclusively on-chain data-layer and wasn't compliant with OpenSea's token metadata API standard.
- I ❤️ coding.
The Solidity contracts for the lexiconomy v2.
Hardhat scripts for deploying and initializing the lexiconomy contract.
Unit and integration tests for the lexiconomy contracts.
The lexiconomy app built with SvelteKit.
If you have ideas, feature requests, or found a bug, make a Github issue! Contributions are welcome.