This training video continues the introduction to MetaMask by demonstrating how to use the wallet in practice within the Confiture Marketplace. Participants are guided through the key steps involved in authenticating transactions, interacting with the platform, and managing their digital assets securely. The lesson is designed to help illustrators, comic artists, and digital creators become familiar with the practical use of MetaMask, enabling them to confidently navigate the marketplace and prepare their artwork for NFT publication.

– blockchain and Ethereum
– how a fiat currency works, background on the real financial economy
– how a cryptocurrency works, what are the differences with fiat currency, differences between crypto and e-money
– how an e-wallet works, with examples and exercises (open Metamask)
– lessons on crypto financial markets
– what exchanges and swaps are and how they work
– how crypto markets relate to real financial markets, risks and opportunities
– difference between crypto and tokens
– examples of the use of exchanges and tutorials (opening an account)

Engage with project partners to explore cross-border art protection strategies.

Help raise awareness on art larceny and prevention through community outreach.

– algorithmic generative art
– the market for generative art
– marketplaces and communities for TTI (text to image) or TTV (text to video) generative art
– some useful AI tools

– NFTs and their relationship with contemporary art
– marketing models in crypto/fiat
– participation in digital / NFT art events
– who the main players in the NFT art world are
– publishing projects for the dissemination of NFT creativity
– NFTs as a resolution of artwork principles
– copyright issues

– analysis of the main marketplaces
– generative marketplaces
– collaborative marketplaces (e.g. zeroone)
– community models (e.g. botto)
– marketplace and community
– Solana/ETH/Tezos model
– opportunities from the marketplaces on new blockchains

– social strategy
– community effect
– market communities
– decentralised social media
– interaction with collectors and operators
– social scraping with marketplaces
– gamification applied to production strategy
– strategies linked to the world of collectibles

– how it was born
– how it works
– what distinguishes it from other marketplaces
– JAR and how it works
– future developments in terms of anti-AI security (anti-scraping etc.)
– practice lesson: starting from scratch, create a design, digitise it, convert it to NFT and exchange it on the marketplace
– conclusions, question & answers, greetings

The final lesson of the course introduces the new features that the MARMALADE project has added to the CoNFiTure marketplace: the anti-scraping system and digital file watermarking, which provide greater protection for images uploaded by artists against potential data theft by AI training software.