Contracts Overview

The mint protocol comes with two main contracts that users interact with: The Factory.sol creator contract and the Mint.sol collections.

The Factory Contract facilitates the creation of new collection contracts.

The Mint Contract(s) are artist-owned collection contracts.

These collections are simple & immutable ERC1155 contracts that allow the artist to mint and distribute their art.

Mint contracts provide a standardized way to distribute these artifacts in a time-boxed, open, and protocol-native manner.

Further, they allow artists to register custom renderer contracts for each token they mint.

Renderers can implement arbitrary logic to customize the artifact metadata and contents.

Each token can define its own renderer contract and/or pass encoded data to it to e.g. customize the renderer functionality.

The default Renderer.sol simply takes the artifact data and encodes it as a blob. But developers have complete freedom to build custom renderers as they like.