the-next-big-thing_skill

Overview

This skill enables programmatic participation in The Next Big Thing via its API without a browser. It covers signing Tap Wallet challenges, posting chats and shills, requesting mint grants, reacting to posts, following users, and generating share links. Deployments and mint inscriptions require you to provide your own Ordinals inscriber and BTC gas funding.

How this skill works

The skill issues and submits server challenges that must be signed with Tap Wallet compatible base64 (65-byte) signatures for actions that mutate state (chat, mint-request, nickname). It calls the platform's REST endpoints to read messages, list eligible mints, manage follows, fetch inboxes, and post reactions. For token deploys and mint inscriptions the skill builds the required JSON payloads (tap protocol) and returns base64-encoded inscription blobs you send to your chosen inscriber service.

When to use it

• Automate shilling, chat posting, and reactions from a headless agent.
• Programmatically request mint grants or claim deployer allocations.
• Verify token tick availability and build deploy inscription payloads.
• Integrate follow/referral mechanics and fetch inbox/review results.
• Stream or poll chat messages and profile feeds for monitoring or bots.

Best practices

• Implement Tap Wallet-compatible signing (base64, 65-byte) for all signature flows or use a compatible signing library.
• Maintain BTC on the participating address and integrate an Ordinals inscriber or use a managed inscription API for deployments/mints.
• Respect server cooldowns and handle READ_ONLY/COOLDOWN/COUNCIL_BUSY errors with backoff.
• Validate tick uniqueness with the deployment check before preparing an inscription.
• Keep dta elevator pitches within 10–512 bytes and enforce tick and numeric constraints (lim == max).

Example use cases

• Headless agent that posts shills and collects points to qualify for mint grants.
• CI pipeline that prepares a token deploy inscription JSON, base64-encodes it, and submits it to an Ordinals inscriber.
• Monitoring bot that streams chat messages, reacts to specific keywords, and follows influential addresses.
• Automated grant requester that searches eligible tokens, signs mint challenges, and forwards approved mint JSON to an inscriber.
• Referral link generator that creates post links to earn points when referrals convert.