Creators want to create anticipation around a mint, which means they want a natural sort of landing page experience around a mint, and a known mint milestone. Currently this is not a problem, so the mint announcement and countdown has to be separate from the actual mint itself.
Proposal
Introduce new state where NFTs are minted, but only work at some time in the future. Should be clock time in chain, not blocks. While in this state, the mint can be rescheduled or cancelled, but once the milestone passes, the semantics are identical to normal minted state today.
Background
Creators want to create anticipation around a mint, which means they want a natural sort of landing page experience around a mint, and a known mint milestone. Currently this is not a problem, so the mint announcement and countdown has to be separate from the actual mint itself.
Proposal
Introduce new state where NFTs are minted, but only work at some time in the future. Should be clock time in chain, not blocks. While in this state, the mint can be rescheduled or cancelled, but once the milestone passes, the semantics are identical to normal minted state today.