🍄Overview

Clusters

Clusters are a way of grouping Spores and are optional unless using a protocol that requires it.

Minting Clusters

Clusters can be used in various ways, but the default nature is it contains a name, and description field.

When choosing to use a Cluster, you will Mint a Private Cluster which can NOT be melted.

Default Cluster Structure

{
  name: "My Next Digital Asset!",
  description: "This is a rare capture of the mystical Pepe caught in the wild!",
}

IPFS Data

All thumbnails and banners associated with a Cluster are stored off-chain, to keep Clusters at a minimal Capacity. All images are platform based and stored with IPFS regardless.

By default, the IPFS CID is not attached to the Cluster, but for a small increase in CKB (Capacity) you can have a dob-lite feature creating an object out of the Cluster Description.

Choosing to use this feature will incur a fee of 100 CKB and will flag the pinned CID as dob-lite.

Data Stored with IPFS attached

Description is self-nested as the Cluster expects name/description and is encoded with the image/banner fields attached.

The IPFS CID has ipfs:// prefixed to it, to identify it as using the IPFS protocol.

{
  name: "My Next Digital Asset!",
  description: {
    description: "This is a rare capture of the mystical Pepe caught in the wild!",
    image: "ipfs://QmTdKcXpe77cixjfLCPKX8piNt3tLPoZWXTYUqLxFQmV1A",
    banner: "ipfs://QmSY3HX13Xfh2UYfDmodee5gqGw7F77WM4FKdmRM8dCqbb",
  },
}

Spores

Spores are on-chain digital assets which holds most if not all data on-chain. Spores minted on imagiNation are not made immortal can be melted at any time, returning any CKB and destroying the Spore.

Minting Spores

Spores are flexible following a simple structure of content and contentType, but anything can be encoded to be stored on-chain.

With this flexibility in mind, you can view all the different Storage Types and pick what best suits your needs.