Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): Finding Forever: minted my first artifact to “The Forever Library” test net.
The Artist's Blueprint for Rescuing Catalog MUSIC NFTs that are currently owned by the Zora: Auction House Smart Contract.
When Catalog sunset its frontend, it left music tokens sitting in an active, open state inside the Zora Auction House smart contract escrow system. Because the marketplace UI is gone, the contract is waiting indefinitely for an action. To get a token back, every artist must cancel the auction via Etherscan. There is no "direct transfer" function available while a token is tied up in a live market listing; canceling is the only mechanism that forces the contract to return the asset.
There are a lot of Artists who most likely have no idea that the ownership of their 1/1 songs they pressed on Catalog Works is currently tied to Zora Smart Contract instead of their wallets due to not cancelling open auctions prior to the Catalog Works front end platform officially sunsetting. Multiple Artists that use INPROCESS have music in there, as well as A few that keep in touch with our Music Nerd Executive Producers. Sadly I also see music in there from Artists that have long left web3 behind and others that have been MIA from social media or the internet completely.
So I encourage anyone who comes across this guide that knows any artists that have uploaded music to Catalog, or if you find this guide helpful in anyway (if this is your first time interacting directly with a smart contract via etherscan to execute actions from your wallet) please pay it forward and share it.
It's also possible that 99% of those who uploaded their music or collect music on chain have absolutely zero concern or care for retaining ownership of their Music Nfts but there's got to be at least 1 person besides myself who both was not aware their music/tokens were locked in an Zora auction contract that also care a lot about recovering them.
Collect and Leave a Comment if you have any questions or found this helpful.
and if you're interested in the backstory of how I stumbled across a hidden library of Catalog Works bops trapped in escrow...
Please collect / read my previous artifact:
▱⇨ https://www.inprocess.world/collect/base:0xbfaab1564b7faac7cbc2855dbc96e8b9623a5b1b/127 ⇐▱
SEARCHING FOR A SAVE POINT
- Dutchyyy
