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+# Rocketeer NFT
+
+Components:
+
+- Solidity contract
+- Firebase function for metadata
+
+Project structure:
+
+```
+
+./
+./*.{json,rules,js}
+./- config files for the contracts and API
+
+./contracts/
+./- Solidity contracts
+
+./migrations/
+./- Migrations for the contracts
+
+./test/
+./- Tests for the contacts
+
+./functions/
+./- Firebase API code
+
+```
+
+## Requirements
+
+[ ] `./functions`: set Infura project ID through `firebase functions:config:set infura.projectid=`
+[ ] `./functions/package.json`: dependencies for backend, run `npm i` in `./functions`
+[ ] `./package.json`: dependencies for contracts, run `npm i` in root
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