Organization Name – Mintbase

Category – Services

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Mintbase is NEAR-based NFT infrastructure — tools for minting, buying, and selling NFTs with low fees, serving developers, artists, and marketplaces building Web3 applications. Founded 2018, Mintbase migrated from Ethereum to NEAR in 2020 and raised meaningful funding ($7.5M Series A per its own log; Blockleaders reported a $12.5M figure — the discrepancy is worth resolving). The Don Norman affordance read is that Mintbase positions as infrastructure rather than destination: rather than running one NFT marketplace, it provides the tools for anyone to build NFT functionality, which is the… more defensible position in a category where individual marketplaces rise and fall but the underlying minting-and-trading infrastructure is durably needed.

An interconnection worth surfacing: Mintbase’s co-founders are Nate Geier and Carolin Geier, and Nate Geier is also the co-founder of Bitte Wallet (separately profiled in this directory) — Bitte being the broader wallet-and-protocol product the Mintbase team developed. The two projects share founding DNA and NEAR-ecosystem focus, which means they are best understood as a connected product portfolio from the same team rather than independent efforts. CGO Chris Ghent is LinkedIn-identity-verified.

The verifiable surface is modest. The X handle is uncertified at only 284 followers against a 3,784 total audience — a notable gap suggesting the project’s reach lives in NEAR-ecosystem channels rather than its own X presence. Marketing efficiency data is empty. No token in the bundle. The Lisbon headquarters is shared with Bitte (consistent with the connected-team reading).

The achievements log is dated (2018 founding, 2020 Ethereum-to-NEAR migration, 2022 $7.5M Series A, Createbase Guild launch). None of the six RMA pillars has been submitted. Within VaaSBlock’s Services category Mintbase sits at rank 39 of 59. The NEAR-NFT-infrastructure position and the connected-team relationship with Bitte are the substantive context; reconciling the funding figure and verifying the Geier co-founders would close the file. Read More