onpeer is a decentralized streamable-like website to upload videos and mint them as NFTs on the Polygon blockchain.
The whole idea behind onpeer is uploading videos to a peer to peer network, like Livepeer or IPFS, but also proving that those videos have been uploaded by you, and letting others interact with them on-chain, which makes everything effectively provable and archivable.
This project is still WIP so major structural or conceptual changes might occur.
- yarn & bun
- postgresql database
- thirdweb cli
# deploy the contract
# refer to thirdweb cli docs
npx thirdweb deploy
# install deps
yarn install
# generate schema types
yarn prisma:generate
# generate graphql types
yarn apollo:generate
# migrate
# make sure to fill the .env
yarn prisma:migrate
# run indexer
yarn indexer
# start app
yarn startonpeer contract has been written using solidity using the ERC721 protocol with a signature based minting is currently deployed on Polygon.
- Minting video
- Setting metadata (title, description for now)
- Liking a video
- Commenting a video (irreversible)
- uploading a video to onpeer
- onpeer will store that video using a peer to peer storage solution
- onpeer will sign a payload and return it to the user with the signature needed to mint their specific video
- user chooses to mint or not the video
- minting: video becomes persistent and interactable with
- not minting: video is temporarily stored on a peer to peer storage solution and deleted 24h after
- Interactions, such as likes and comments, are permanently recorded on the blockchain as events in the video smart contracts.
- When minted, videos are given a token id that is calculated based on the mint metadata instead of the video itself. Therefore it is quite hard to snipe videos.
The onpeer indexer operates alongside on-chain data. It watches for events and maintains an off-chain database for faster retrieval access. It also ensure immediate updates when changes are made on-chain. Like liking or commenting on a video.
Unminted videos are automatically purged after 24 hours, emphasizing the necessity of minting for enduring storage. While likes on videos are reversible, comments are irreversible and remain permanently stored.