He was mistaken. You cannot use a custom contract with apps. You CAN import a contract WITH tokens minted into inventory, which will allow you to see those tokens and USE those tokens in apps like burn.
But you cannot use a custom contract with studio to create new tokens on that contract.
Okay, good to know, thank you for following up. Is it possible to create an ERC721Creator contract, mint tokens in advance, and then resell the minted tokens on Manifold using a Gallery listing, or is that also just for Manifold Studio-created tokens?
Also - just a recommendation, I would explicitly state somewhere early and directly in the FAQ / documentation that this isnât possible, because itâs not stated anywhere in the Github repositories or any of the documentation pages, which Iâve spent several hours today reading through, deploying test contracts, and trying to figure out, since itâs easy to make the mistake that itâs implied that this is possible.
Curious, mind sharing what customizations you required in your ERC721Creator contract that we donât currently support?
Fwiw the reason Claim Pages donât support custom deployments of ERC721Creator is due to the fact that we canât guarantee the integrity of unverified implementations. Not assuming bad intent or anything, but bugs happen and weâd be responsible for that if youâre using Manifold Claim pages.
Thatâs totally understandable, and Iâm not surprised - I just misunderstood that manually deploying ERC721Creator contracts isnât supported.
As for my personal use case, I was planning for a dynamic metadata NFT collection that would render HTML directly from the contract (as opposed to linking a page from IPFS), and when rendered directly in a frame that allows wallet connections, would enable the user to perform on-chain actions, which would alter the NFT over time.
Hey, are you still interested in doing this? We have an update to our core contract architecture that will possibly support this. Happy to brief you on the concept if you want to get in touch: {my username}@manifold.xyz