6,400 NFTs that kept live score of a basketball tournament, built in two months.
Basketball NFTs · California, United States
- 6,400 dynamic NFTs: 100 for each of the tournament’s 64 teams
- 100 left standing at the end; every other token became a participation trophy
- 2 months for the smart contracts, backend and mint page
What did Bushido build for this basketball NFT collection?
Bushido built 6,400 dynamic NFTs that followed TBT, The Basketball Tournament, as it was played: 100 for each of its 64 teams, showing the live score and turning into participation trophies as teams went out. It took two developers two months to build the smart contracts, backend and free mint page.
The problem
The brief was an NFT collection that did not sit still: it would follow TBT while it was played.
The solution
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The live score, on the token.
While its team played, a token showed the score and opponent; between games, the next opponent.
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Eliminated teams become trophies.
Image and metadata changed to a participation trophy, still owned, no longer in the running.
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A free claim, for the whitelist only.
A Merkle tree whitelist, checked by the contract itself.
The result
| A typical NFT | This collection | |
|---|---|---|
| What the token shows | The same image it had at mint | Its team’s live score, or the next opponent |
| When the team loses | Nothing changes | It becomes a participation trophy |
| What makes it scarce | The supply set at mint | The tournament: 100 of 6,400 survive |
Stack, team and facts
The NFT was
the scoreboard.
NFT, Sports
2 months, 2022
2 developers
Smart contracts
Backend system
Mint page
Next.js, Tailwind, Ethereum, Solidity, Hardhat, OpenZeppelin, Ethers.js, SST, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront)
Next
- Earlier work, 2021 to 2023Smart-contract products, kept on the record. Not a service line.
- Fully on-chain generative NFTs with a daily auction and DAOThe next case study.
Questions
Questions people ask about this collection.
What happened to the NFTs of eliminated teams?
They became participation trophies. The holder kept the token, but only the champion’s 100 stayed in the running.
Who could claim a token?
Only whitelisted addresses, for free, checked by the contract with a Merkle tree.
Yours is next.
Same team, sharper tools. Tell us where you are and we will tell you what it takes (scope, shape and a timeline we would actually hold ourselves to) on a 30-minute call with a builder.