🔐 Creating a Crypto Token Gated Express application

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Unlock

I'm here to show you how simple the process is for token gating content in an Express.js application using the Ʉnlock Protocol. Ʉnlock is a protocol for memberships that allows anyone to deploy a "lock" (a membership smart contract). The contract specifies the terms of the membership: including price, duration, number of members, and many more parameters necessary to run a thriving membership subscription. When a supporter wants to join your membership, they simply pay the specified amount to the contract and will receive an NFT that represents the purchased membership.

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Swordy Bot

Additionally you as a developer can decide of the benefits you want to offer to your members, whether its access to unique content, special features. One of my favorite feature is that the locks themselves are not even tied to a specific platform. For example, if you decide to do support over Discord, you could use a bot like SwordyBot to easily identify paying members (or grant them access to a special channel!).

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MetaMask.io

Requirements: you need to use an ethereum/web3 wallet such as MetaMask. We will be using a the Rinkeby test network for this tutorial (no need to spend real money, get some fake Ether on this faucet), and when you decide to ship, you can use Ethereum's mainnet, or the xDAI and Polygon networks if you want to skip the high gas fees.

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ExpressJS

For this demo, I created a dummy Express application that gives the time ⏰ in all timezones. The "free" version just includes 4 cities around the world, but the premium version offers a list of 457 cities!

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