NearNauts

NEARNauts is a truly community driven, randomly generated NFT PFP project powered by the NEAR Network.

NEARNauts aims to pioneer the NFT space on NEAR, by growing a completely organic, loyal community around the project. By entering the NEARNauts family, you are climbing aboard what aims to be the most sought after, rewarding club in the NEAR Ecosystem.

NEARNauts uses a pool of traits of varying rarity percentages to generate the completed NFT’s, meaning these NFT’s will vary in rarity. To ensure fairness for all people who purchase NFT’s, we ensure verified randomness b VRF.

A Verifiable Random Function (VRF) is a tuple function that takes an input (x) to generate a pseudo-random output and proof that the output was generated randomly. The VRF includes three algorithms: generated, proof, and verification. First, the generated algorithm produces two pairs of keys: a secret key (SK) and a public key (pk). Next, the proof algorithm takes the secret key (SK) and the message (x) as an input to produce a pseudo-random output (y) along with a proof. Lastly, the verification algorithm takes the public key (pk), the message (x), as well as the output (y) and the proof to verify that the output (y) is true.

Verifiable Random Functions are vital to the development of smart contracts for various disciplines, including decentralized applications, security, layer two protocols, and blockchain networks. VRFs can be used to generate random properties of an NFT. Using the proof generated from the VRF, you can confirm the output was chosen randomly.