Did you know you can embed NFTs (say what?) into your Hacker Noon stories? No? Well, that isn't too surprising because we haven't told anyone about it.
What I did here is browse https://opensea.io/assets and then when I found something resembling a voxel kung fu gorilla DJ (AKA CyberKongz), I clicked on it. Which brought me here:
Next, I scrolled down to the "Details" section on the left and clicked on it to reveal some important information, the "Contract Address" and the "Token ID" as seen here:
⚠️⚠️⚠️NOTE: This only works with NFTs using the ERC-721 contract⚠️⚠️⚠️
I clicked the link for the Contract Address, which opened in a new tab and copied the actual value from the top of the page as seen here:
Right, so that's in the paste buffer, I go back to the draft and paste it in- but do I hit enter? Goodness, no! I go back and click the Token ID to similarly copy its value into my paste buffer because typing the 4 digits is too hard and you can totally trust websites to fill your paste buffer, right? 🙅 No, you can't, really. They call it "Pastejacking"- it's not nearly as stimulating as it may sound to your filthy and immature ears. ha
Okay, so in the end I wind up with this:
0x7ea3cca10668b8346aec0bf1844a49e995527c8b#8438Then I press enter and I see it loading for a couple seconds like:
If all goes well, you will see the embedded NFT load in after a few seconds. Congratulations. 🎉
If you see it loading forever, undo the embed and try again. I have seen it hang the first time and then work quickly the second time 😐. If that doesn't do it, make sure you aren't missing the #tokenId bit at the end the end. Also be sure that the token standard is ERC-721.
Right! So you can now embed (ERC-721) NFTs into your Hacker Noon stories! Why not give it a go today? Have a good one.✌️