zKonnect is a blockchain-based application designed to help creators host their events seamlessly in a decentralized environment. Built on the Solana blockchain, zKonnect leverages the power of decentralization to provide a secure, efficient, and user-friendly platform for event management and ticketing. It uses Huddle01SDK for token-gated rooms and Reclaim Protocol to get a zk-proof of the number of followers of a creator.

• Decentralized Event Hosting: Create and manage events on the Solana blockchain.
• Seamless Payments: Utilize Solana's fast and low-cost transactions for ticket purchases.
• In-App Currency: Use Blinks as an in-app currency for various transactions.
• cNFT Ticketing: Provide attendees with unique NFTs as event tickets and memorabilia.
• Multi-token Payment: Currently we give options for creators to accept payments in Sol, USDC, and are willing to expand more.
• Creator Tools: Comprehensive tools for event creation, management, and analytics.
• Audience Engagement: Interactive features to enhance the event experience for attendees.
• AI Integration : We aim to provide fastest possible event organization experience to the user with AI chatbot to extract event data from the user's chat to directly create an event.

• Built on Solana
• Solana Actions
• Reclaim Protocol
• Huddle01SDK
• NFT Standard: Solana NFT standard (Metaplex)
• Next.js
• Rust (for smart contract)

• Blockchain links – or blinks – turn any Solana Action into a shareable, metadata-rich link. Blinks allow Action-aware clients (browser extension wallets, bots) to display additional capabilities for the user. On a website, a blink might immediately trigger a transaction preview in a wallet without going to a decentralized app;

• Figma Link

• YouTube

• Creator Verification, event creation and user paying and getting cNFT ticket in return: [Working Video][https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qPSJkLXxem7EQYWqD4ZfNI1-Zj0k9cxw/view]

• Dial.to
  

• Solana CLI Tools
• Node.js (version 14 or higher)
• Yarn or npm

1. Clone the repository
2. Run the command npm i.
3. copy the env variables from .env.example and paste into .env
4. Go to Huddle and get you API_KEY and Project Id and paste under NEXT_PUBLIC_PROJECT_ID AND API_KEY.
5. Go to Reclaim and create your app by select the linkedin equal provider and paste the keys under RECLAIM_APP_ID and RECLAIM_SECRET_KEY respectively.
6. Put NEXT_PUBLIC_ENVIRONMENT value as localhost.
7. Get the DATABASE_URL by creating a db from MongoDB.
8. Get your Pinata_JWT from Pinata Cloud.
9. Get a account whole private key can be used for NFT creating and put it under NFT_SIGNER_PVT_KEY, make sure it has enough SOL.
10. Grab your NEXT_PUBLIC_SOLANA_RPC url from your choice of RPC provider and put the value, or the default solana rpc will be used (I'll suggest get one from Heilus).

First, run the development server:

npm run dev
# or
yarn dev
# or
pnpm dev
# or
bun dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.