How We Got Here
Scatter.art launched two years ago as an artist-first NFT marketplace.
While our initial focus was on creating a platform that guaranteed the availability of secondary market sales for collections, in 2022 we pivoted primarily to an NFT launchpad, specializing in giving all artists a white glove launch where we helped them every step of the way.
Splinter.art represents the next step in our evolution. After helping to launch more than 1,000 collections, with many consistently top trending collections having launched on Scatter, onboarding 50,000+ Web3 wallets, serving millions of curious Web2 users, and processing over 4,000 ETH in sales, we have decided to condense all we’ve learned in this relentless high energy period into a new whitelabel solution we know you'll love.
Over the past two years, it has become clear that Scatter's network of communities and creators has grown powerful, influential, culturally dominant, and is now ready to expand beyond a single shared space.
Our policy has always been to platform everyone, provided they’re acting within our ToS, and Scatter prime will always be this sea of chaos.
However, we know that there is an important path forward for us to provide a way for people to create their own spaces of which they have complete control over.
Rather than have Scatter act as the arbiter of taste, we will now pass this on to you, our users, to run and manage your very own nexus of creativity.
Want to run Scatter your way? Now's your chance with Splinter!
What Is Splinter
Splinter is an opinionated, multi-tenant PaaS framework for building whitelabel web3 platforms and dApps. Splinter.art is the latest evolution of Scatter.art made to help you effortlessly launch your own marketplaces, create your own platforms, build your ecosystems, curate your walled gardens, and set up your own beautiful galleries.
Step 1 was Scatter.art, a one-stop shop empowering creators to ship everything needed for a successful NFT launch: secure smart-contracts, bug-free mint UI, tamper-proof IPFS hosting, ERC-20 minting, affiliate marketing, and more.
Step 2 is Splinter.art, a springboard to deploy your very own Scatter. Manage your art ecosystem, cultivate a community, curate collections, and earn sales commissions on your own bespoke marketplace. All without touching a single line of code or needing to worry about uptime.
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Splinter’s comprehensive suite of tools allows you to deploy your own highly scalable, flexible, multi-region, multi-blockchain application instances. Featuring:
- Hot-swappable themes. Customizable designs at either the code-level or GUI-level. If you are a professional designer you can get your hands dirty in CSS. If you know color theory you can use the GUI color pickers. Your Splinter will look and feel how you want it to. No time/mind for pixel pushing? Themes are heuristically tuned. Splinter’s theme engine will generate a beautiful theme for you.
- Composable feature sets. All major features on your Splinter can be toggled. If you want a specific content section enabled you can have it enabled. If you simply want to have a more gallery like Splinter that is your choice.
- Complete administration tools. You have total control over your Splinter. Every part of it. You can add your own team members and assign them granular permissions. You can enable moderated onboarding that requires your permission before creators can deploy on your Splinter. All admin actions are monitored and logged.
- Fully managed service. You supply your domain name, pick your theme, choose the features you want enabled, and we worry about authentication, databases, infrastructure, security patches, indexing, analytics, sales bots, and more.
- SEO optimized structures. SEO best practices are baked in. We want you to own your Splinter’s name on search engines. When people look specifically for you, they will find you. You don’t have to worry about other Splinters importing your collection and showing up first in search. Collections deployed on your Splinter are assigned as canonical links to that collection, which means even if other Splinters import your Splinter’s collections, your Splinter will still be the canonical one for search engine results (even above Scatter prime).
If Scatter represents the dev of your NFT project, Splinter represents the CTO and engineering team for the new platform that will power your ecosystem.