Trick-or-Treating with Web3: How to NFT Halloween

Mrs. Frankenstan adjusted her costume and turned on the porch light for the trick-or-treaters. This year was going to be different, and she was anxious to get started. She fired up her laptop and smiled as she readied the plan.

The King-Size Problem

Every year, as children mapped out their routes for trick-or-treating, they would hear a rumor of the one house that did not skimp on candy bars. Instead, king-size candy bars were awarded to the kids that knew where to go and went early enough so that they wouldn’t miss out.

Mrs. Frankenstan was the owner of that particular house.

She loved the looks on the kids’ faces as she dropped the massive bars into their buckets, pails, and pillowcases. But alas, there were several problems that she dealt with each year.

Some kids would attempt to go back to her house multiple times to gain that coveted treat. Mrs. Frankenstan always had to pay close attention to catch those repeat tricksters. She had limited supply and wanted to ensure that they were distributed fairly.

Then there were inventory concerns. Some years her choices of flavors were limited, and she didn’t want to spend her retirement savings on terrible-tasting sweets. Or she didn’t purchase enough and had to turn off the porch light early.

There had to be a better way.

Upgrading the Trick-or-Treat Experience

She may not look like it, but Mrs. Frankenstan is a tech-savvy retiree. She determined a better way of candy distribution - digital tokens. She first created 30 NFTs to distribute to her trick-or-treaters, and each had a festive Halloween design. The smart contract outlined the following details:

1. One king-size candy bar every year on Halloween

2. Access to the Halloween House online community

3. Voting rights to what kind of candy Mrs. Frankenstan should hand out

4. Voting rights to what costume Mrs. Frankenstan would wear

5. A commemorative photo of themselves with Mrs. Frankenstan outside her house

She also created a separate unique token for each candy bar to airdrop as well. This way, there was a record of what type of candy the trick-or-treater received.

Halloween 2022 - NFT Distribution

Mrs. Frankenstan answered the first 30 door knocks on Halloween and issued her NFTs. The children also received the candy bar and candy token. They looked in amazement, and word spread fast of the house that handed out king-size bars AND tokens! Quickly they all were distributed.

Halloween 2023 - Execution

This year’s preparations were less stressful as she knew exactly what her trick-or-treaters wanted because of her discussions with the kids in her Halloween House community.

When her doorbell rang this year, she asked to see the token in their digital wallet. She scanned it and then airdropped the specific candy bar token. For those who didn’t have her Halloween token, do not worry; they still received a treat. It was snack size, however.

Halloween 2024 and beyond

As the years went on, kids grew up and moved out of the neighborhood. Those kids decided to sell their tokens and transfer the benefits of Mrs. Frankenstan’s Halloween House to someone new.

To commemorate the 5th year of tokenizing Halloween, Mrs. Frankenstan held a private party for those Trick-or-Treaters that had five candy bar tokens.

Conclusion

Mrs. Frandenstan solved her candy inventory problem and created a reoccurring trick-or-treat experience that was guided by those who held her token.

Kids sold or traded them once they grew older or moved away. She made digital memories with photos and was the talk of the neighborhood. No longer was she fooled by repeat tricksters - if you had a token, you could only redeem one treat.

Adding digital tokens to your Halloween can take your Halloween holiday to the next level.

Maybe Mrs. Frankenstan should start her planning for Christmas.