How to lock any content behind any NFT or crypto

One of the things that NFTs have been touted as being able to do, from a utility point of view, is to provide owners with access to limited edition content, or private content.

This is largely done by embedding an access code, or a URL, within an NFT smart contract, and only allowing the owner access to it.

There are three major problems with this:

So how can we lock dynamic web 2.0 content and ensure only an NFT owner can access it?

Luckily there is a really simple solution that allows anyone to lock any file or URL behind an NFT or smart contract lock, which can then only be accessed by people who hold that NFT (or really any Ethereum based token or coin) in their wallet as a “key.”

It allows you to easily paste in a URL, or upload a file, and specify which smart contract can be used as the “key.”

This also allows you to lock multiple ongoing content drops behind a single NFT. For example, if you have a fan NFT, you could regularly upload new content and generate new locks that can be unlocked and accessed only by people who have that NFT in their wallet. This is a great option for musicians or any content creators. You could even lock a whole file directory behind an NFT and upload new content to that, meanwhile selling (or giving away) an access NFT on any marketplace as a form of member-only access.

The sky’s the limit and really depends on what you want to share and what you need to lock. But in short, you can lock any web 2.0 URL or any file behind any Ethereum smart contract and gate access to only those people who hold that smart contract. You don’t even need to be the smart contract owner, just prove (through connecting a wallet) that you too hold one of the tokens at creation. So even if you’re just a member of a community, you can create content drops for other community members and holders with a click of a button.

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