Product design, frontend development and smart contracts · 2024
An NFT marketplace built from scratch: from the smart contract to the last pixel of the interface.
There was no earlier version to fix and no platform to migrate: Mito started from zero. The challenge wasn't only turning Seele Studio's design into a pixel-perfect interface, but solving something deeper: an NFT marketplace needs whatever happens on the blockchain to show up in the product quickly and reliably, and Ethereum isn't built for that. Every mint, every sale, every state change lives on-chain, but querying it in real time for each user isn't viable.
We built the pixel-perfect frontend following Seele Studio's design and art direction, integrated the Ethereum smart contracts that handle minting, listings and marketplace transactions, and developed our own blockchain listener: a service that picks up on-chain events as they happen and stores them in a database. Instead of the interface having to query the blockchain on every action, the product reads from that database, always up to date and always available. The result is a marketplace that feels fast and reliable, even though underneath it is constantly talking to Ethereum.
We worked side by side with two partners: Seele Studio led design and art direction, and Utsuri handled the backend and the blockchain layer — smart contracts, listener and on-chain data infrastructure — while we took product design and the frontend. From kickoff to delivery, the project took 3.5 months.