Certified Web3 Boy

Certified Web3 Boy started as a joke that got serious. I was deep in Developer DAO, obsessed with how internet culture moves in real time—and equally obsessed with the visual language of Drake's Certified Lover Boy era. Two worlds that should not have met… and then did.

CWB was never a roadmap or a fundraise. It was a drop: small, loud, and personal. Twenty-one pieces that felt like they belonged on a timeline somewhere between a Discord server, a gallery wall, and a mint button.

The collection was built around a single mood—web3 as culture, not just finance. Each piece carried the same energy: playful, a little dramatic, unmistakably of that 2021 moment when everyone was suddenly talking about wallets, PFPs, and "community."

I wanted the art to feel collectible without pretending to be a 10k generative project. No fake rarity tables—just a tight set of characters with a shared visual language—bold type, album-cover confidence, and enough weirdness to feel native to the space.

Most NFT projects split the work: artists make the art, devs make the contract. I wanted to close that gap myself—not because I thought I had to do everything, but because the mint experience is part of the art.

• Figma first — identity, mint states, and mobile screens before touching Solidity.
• Contract on Ethereum — a straightforward NFT mint so claiming felt real, not like a mockup.
• Frontend as performance — wallet connect, pending states, and a celebration screen that treated ownership like a moment, not a transaction receipt.

That loop—sketch, ship, break, fix—is where I actually learned web3. Gas limits, wallet popups, failed mints: the unglamorous parts that separate a Behance mockup from something people can claim.

For CWB, minting was the main event. The site had to feel like stepping into a small ritual: arrive curious, connect your wallet, watch the piece land in your hands. Every state below is deliberate—not filler between clicks.

The door — before you connect

Wallet in — the mint unlocks

Minting — the nervous middle

Yours — the celebration beat

CWB was not built to be a blue-chip collection. It was a love letter to a weird, electric moment in internet culture—and a way to prove I could carry an idea from sketch to chain without losing the personality along the way.

If you want to dig in: the live mint UI, the frontend, the contract, and the Figma file are all still out there.