MintbaseDAO is the new Createbase; the official community of Mintbase.io. What is a DAO you may ask? A Decentralized Autonomous Organization is a formalized community that self-governs on a blockchain. In our case, that blockchain is NEAR Protocol.
The first transaction on Mintbase happened in 2019 on Ethereum. The first use-case was ticketing for MetaCartel at Berlin Blockchain week. In August 2020 Mintbase was transforming and re-writing the code on NEAR β after it had gone live in April 2020. Aiming to pursue utility NFTs, Mintbase is a clear pioneer in NFT toolkits on NEAR.
NEAR always had the intent to be a collective, a foundation, and a blockchain. It does make sense that NEAR was interested in the creation of a guild associated with Mintbase. That was when Createbase was born, in November 2020, when Mintbase was not even live on mainnet.