# The Penguin Incubator Project: Saving South African Penguin Chicks with NTFs with Zaffron & Mitchell

- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 17:12
- Topics: Entertainment
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-FYXgWHR6SXU
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXgWHR6SXU

## Description

Join us for a lively session showcasing projects from young creators under 20. They are in high school or their first years in college and already coming up with awesome applications of blockchain technology.

For The Penguin Project: Discuss the way in which we are allowing users to utilize standard authentication (like google, apple, email, etc.) with Web3Auth and/or Keyp and traditional payment methods (debit, credit, stripe), to mint NFTs on the Polygon blockchain that represent a donation/sponsorship of a real world need. We have also created a parallel "crypto focused" checkout method that utilizes Depay. The struggle of offering both models is pretty interesting.

In our case we are minting tokens to represent Penguin Incubators that go directly to funding the creation and maintenance of incubators that support African Penguin populations through a foundation called Penguins International. The NFTs are then used to token gate content relating to the outcomes created by the incubators as time goes on. We're utilizing a Wordpress plugin to gate the content after minting to allow our tokens to extend beyond our domain and activate a website built in a very standard web2 manner.

Discuss the struggles of web3 authentication, receiving payment, creating a smooth user experience, and ensuring reliable outcomes would be the general focus of my talk.

https://twitter.com/zaffosaurus
Zaffron Castagnaro
Founder
Penguin Incubator Project
Zaffy is a Senior at Mountain Vista High School. She has participated in multiple ETHDenver events in the past, including auctioning off an NFT Bufficorn Skin she made in 2021 and getting second place in the ETHDenver 2021 Minecraft Tournament. She has been exposed to the world of crypto and web3 by her father's various projects since 2016 including Wampei, myColorado Digital ID, and Bufficorn Ventures.

https://twitter.com/NewFTWorks
Mitchell Valentine
Founder / Creator
New FronTier Works
I'm a Bufficorn at heart, and I've attended ETHDenver every year since its inception. This has lead me to create New FronTier Works, a web3 boutique focused on buidling projects that connect the real world with the digital. I'm a Colorado native, father, world traveler, designer, developer, and I devote my time to building things that make the world a little bit better.