What is URI? Can the file be hosted anywhere?

[eduardstal]

Question Posted: 17 August 2021, in Discord

soSteve#8813:

I noticed that the lazy mint function requires uri: link (token URI). What is this URI? Is it a link to a media piece? If so, can the file be hosted anywhere?

Eugene Nacu | Rarible#9332:

uri is the link (or part of the link) to the metadata
metadata ideally should be on ipfs

also, you can see example usage here: https://github.com/rarible/protocol-example
you can lazy mint, create sell order and buy (change account and buy from other account)

[eduardstal]

Since we need to group and filter the discussions page, I'll be adding this reply as an answer since these kinds of threads(from discord) won't have activity any time soon.