If you’re interested to learn more from the Cosmos NFT story, there’s a lot to cover here.
A minimum baseline is that the open-source Cosmos SDK has implemented solutions to create collections, mint, burn, transfer, etc… This was signaled by the ADR 43: NFT Module | Explore the SDK which initial draft was crafted on 2021-05-01.
You can read more about the ADR concept in this blog post.
To learn about the actual module designed for this purpose, you’ll find some high level documentation on the Cosmos SDK’s documentation : x/nft | Explore the SDK
Finally if you’re willing to go deep down the rabbit hole, you can explore the module’s code itself on the public github repo: cosmos-sdk/x/nft at main · cosmos/cosmos-sdk · GitHub
You’ve mentioned your vision to see individual projects taking full control over their collections. Well then Cosmos is well suited for this purpose. Collection who want to retain full sovereignty would be able to create their own custom tailored chain, iterating freely from the base code share above. Endless customization is possible, no vertical value extraction from an L1, and on top of it the ability to make every module “IBC enabled” to support interoperability with other chains in the Cosmos.
It may take some time for people to realize that Cosmos has a much better offering than its competitors. Those who venture in this ecosystem rarely leave. Maybe you’ll be one of them too.
Hope this was helpful to you!
Govmos.
