Since KnownOrigin was launched in 2018, we've continued to explore new ways to empower creators by enabling them to make the most of what blockchain technology has to offer in a creative economy. After listening to the community, we recognised that one of the features most requested was the ability for creators to deploy their own contracts and list pieces from these creator-owned contracts on KnownOrigin's curated marketplace.

What are Creator Contracts

Creator Contracts are the no-code solution for creators looking to deploy their own contracts. It’s a chance to expand your brand beyond the token-level and take full control of the design of your contracts and collections across multiple marketplaces. Recently we have seen the transition from shared marketplace contracts to creator-owned contracts. These give the contract owner full control of the sovereignty of their pieces, where their work is listed, and how their audience engages with their creative output. To date, every approved creator on KnownOrigin has been minting from the same shared contract. With the introduction of Creator Contracts, creators can soon deploy their own contract and take full control of the sovereignty of their work.

Who is it for?

Creator Contracts is a useful tool for creators at every stage of their journey; whether you're looking for a unique way to drop your genesis piece and want to do it on a contract that you can design to match your launch, or whether you're a seasoned creator with an experimental project that you want to house under a special contract. Creator Contracts are designed to be a flexible, no-code solution for creators looking for a way to deploy their own contracts to house their future collections.

Main Benefits

Control

By deploying your own contract, you are taking control of the design, content and appearance of your collection across all the marketplaces it can be discovered on: this includes OpenSea, Rarible and X2Y2, amongst others. It also better protects your work going forwards. The danger of relying on the shared contracts underneath most marketplaces is that your work is attached to the narrative of that marketplace directly. Therefore, if that marketplace was to one day no longer exist, then the contract that housed your collection could disappear with it too. By deploying your own contracts, you are future-proofing your work in case marketplaces go down.

Provenance

For creators looking to take the power of blockchain to its maximum, the deployment of self-owned contracts is the natural next step to your practice. You will be able to deploy as many contracts as you want, and these can all have different purposes or house separate projects.

Collectors

Not only is it a great step to protecting your own creative longevity, but it also protects the collectors who are buying your work. You want collectors to feel safe and secure knowing that the work they are purchasing is going to be there for decades to come, and one of the best ways to achieve this is to create editions from self-owned contracts. By doing this, you are protecting the longevity of your work even after it has changed hands multiple times in the years ahead. It will always be housed underneath your contract and traced back to the wallet address you originally created the contract from.

Royalties

In the deployment of your own contracts, you have the chance to take control of the royalties you set to receive from secondary sales on your pieces across marketplaces. This is one of the huge attractions for creators who see NFTs, and specifically royalties from secondary sales, to secure the longevity of their creative practice.

How to launch a Creator Contract?

For artists with access to the [Portal](https://portal.knownorigin.io/), you will soon be able to deploy a contract and mint an NFT from your contract within the KnownOrigin Portal. You’re required to choose a name for your contract and a symbol, which is how your contract will be represented on Etherscan and across the ecosystem. These details are on-chain and permanent, and so can't be edited. You can then add a description, a website link and images to populate the collection page on the marketplace, both KnownOrigin’s and other marketplaces such as OpenSea. These details are editable and so you can always come back and change these if you want to. Beyond that, the world of Creator Contracts is your oyster, and the function of each contract you deploy is at the mercy of your imagination. --- We’re really excited to see what the KnownOrigin community can conjure up once we release this latest feature. It's something the team have worked incredibly hard to deliver, and it's only the start of the exciting offering we hope to build out for those looking to take advantage of the power to deploy their own contracts. [Be the first to find out about our public launch by signing up for more information](https://creatorcontracts.knownorigin.io/).

Creator Contracts on KnownOrigin