⟵ work ⟶ · Client work

I worked on WEYU's platform in a team of about eight. There was a marketplace, a creator toolbox + launchpad and Discord bots. My job started with "WEYU pieces" which was a massive collaborative charity project in collaboration with UNHCR.

WEYU combined an NFT collection, marketplace and launchpad. I worked on the backend from November 2021 to November 2022.
My first contribution was the collection’s ticket lottery system where artworks were divided into a grid of 6075 pieces, and all of those squares were then traced by refugees, and minted on Solana. The revenue from the sales went to UNHCR.

The clip below shows YuLaunch, the tool for composing collections from artwork layers and publishing them. Anyone could design their collection, specify the traits, rarities, and launch it, all decentralized from their own wallet. And it was immediately available on the marketplace.

YuLaunch showcase. Layers on the left, the composed character on the right, the generated variations underneath

Handling network congestion

The marketplace’s first auction flow was difficult to run during Solana congestion. We replaced parts with a backend-managed escrow flow, followed later by an on chain listing programme that the backend integrated with. Getting everything to run smoothly on our side was a challenge when the networks we depended on were not.

Community bridges

I built bots for Discord and other platforms, and token gates, where ownership was checked, and the bot then granted or removed a role as their staking status changed.