How to Mint a Solana NFT with Metaplex
According to the official Metaplex website, Metaplex is the fastest and most affordable NFT ecosystem for marketplaces, games, arts, and collectibles. The Metaplex protocol has provided standards and tools that many projects use. When using the Metaplex Standard, you get to own your NFT storefront, with no additional fees and no middlemen. As such, Metaplex enables you to create NFTs in a decentralized manner. Moreover, there are many big names supporting the project, including the great Michael Jordan.
Basically, Metaplex is a collection of tools and smart contracts designed to make the process of creating and launching NFTs easier. This is currently offered through two major projects: Metaplex Storefront and The Candy Machine v2. The former is a generalizable NFT selling standard and the latter is an NFT minting tool. And, as mentioned above, we will focus on using the Candy Machine v2 herein to mint Solana NFT tokens.
With the basics under your belt, you are ready to tackle today’s example project. As promised above, we will focus on each stage at the time, so you’ll be able to follow along even if the topic is new to you. We’ll first complete the initial Candy Machine v2 setup, where you will get to clone our code that awaits you on GitHub. Then, we’ll help you set up a Solana wallet on your local machine. Next, we’ll go through the Candy Machine v2 configuration. After that, we will prepare the assets and then create the Candy Machine and upload those assets to Arweave. Moreover, we will also show you how to create Candy Machine collections and how to verify uploads. Finally, you’ll learn how to mint Solana NFT tokens; both one token at a time and multiple tokens.
Furthermore, while we’ll be as explicit as possible, some steps are just much clearer when looking at a video tutorial. Hence, as we proceed, we will often refer to the video located at the bottom of the article.
In today’s article, you had a chance to learn how to mint Solana NFT tokens with Metaplex. For starters, you learned the basics about Solana NFTs and Metaplex. Then, you had a chance to get your hands dirty by taking on our example project. Of course, we provided you with our code and detailed instructions, thus you didn’t need to break a sweat. Essentially, these are the stages you completed along the way:
As such, you now know how to easily mint Solana NFTs and also how to work with Moralis to create killer dapps in minutes.