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title: "Mint thyself"
section: posts
description: "A Zora HTML edition that embeds its own mint interface and can be minted from itself."
tags: ["zora", "html", "gpt", "ipfs", "blockchain", "web-development", "decentralization"]
created: 2023-06-28T13:00:00Z
updated: 2026-07-16T14:59:43Z
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html: https://iammatthias.com/posts/1685948400001-mint-thyself
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# Mint thyself

![](https://blobs.farfield.systems/blobs/bafkreibrws6qahimns3wzxm4wwmicdhayccq4wfqm73den75rrumnkp6yy)

Zora released HTML editions, which meant the artifact being minted could be a webpage rather than an image or video.

![](https://blobs.farfield.systems/blobs/bafkreiev6idod7sdpuxs4j46hwgpncenan7wogst5kti2thjlt55sil4gq)

NFTs were already polarizing, but the storage model was useful for this experiment. Zora called it `Mint internet`.

Zora stored the uploaded file on IPFS. External libraries failed, so any CSS or JavaScript had to travel inside the artifact.

Each edition also came with an optional iframe for embedding its mint interface elsewhere. An HTML edition could contain that iframe and point back at itself.

The contract address does not exist until the edition is minted, so the first HTML file could not include it. I minted a simple wrapper on Goerli, updated the metadata with a second copy containing the real contract address, and the iframe resolved.

`Zora, mint thyself` is an open edition that can be minted from itself. Pure Internet all the way down.

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