how to mint nft on solana phantom

 

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A great number of companies are adopting the cryptographically secure blockchain technology for many different applications, such that the system of transactions and account balances can be maintained over multiple participants without the need for a centralized authority. The security of these systems rests on requiring each participant to validate transactions processed in order by their peers in order to share responsibility for keeping these systems operational.

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The software that manages these transactions and account balances is known as a distributed ledger system, or a blockchain. For some business applications, this ledger system is only stored by the participants in the system; for these systems to be truly useful, however, an audit trail needs to be maintained for each transaction processed by the system so that changes in the ledger can be verified. A blockchain can accomplish this task.

 
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A blockchain is a digital database of transactions (tokens) which are shared among a distributed peer-to-peer network. As new tokens are created, added and removed from the ledger, it becomes more difficult for any single entity to alter or destroy past transactions without being detected by others in the network. Now that you've seen the benefits of minting nft, you might wonder how to do it. In this guide, I will share with you step by step instructions on how to mint nft on SOLANA PHANTOM."

 

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Hello! Here is the first installment of my introduction blog post series. I'm writing introductory blog posts for all of the articles in Solana's Daily Dose newsletter. Today's article is about how to mint a new token for your blockchain with an ethereum client like solana-phantom. To read the indepth explanation of each article, click the title link and then the 'read full article' link to get a copy of the blog post. Let's get started!

 

At Solana, we strive to make launching a new token as easy as possible. This is because there are two types of new tokens: those who are trying to solve a problem that they have seen or experienced, and those who want to create fun applications or toys. We created solana-phantom specifically for people who want to create/issue tokens that play games, raise money for projects without having a grudge against private forks, or even just collectible virtual items. With so many cryptocurrencies out there competing for your attention, earning coins by mining or trading is a difficult task. The reason for this difficulty is that when you mint coins on the blockchain, they have to be given away fairly and equally. If you don't give them away, then it's called the "nft" or "non-fungible token". In this article we will show you how to make some nft with solana phantom.

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Nft are digital assets that are not like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin or Ripple in any way. They work differently and can only be traded with other valid NFT assets.

The reason that nft work differently is because they rely on the ERC-721 standard. This standard allows each NFT to be unique and have their own type of metadata. The metadata for each nft is stated inside the codebase and can never be changed by anyone.

So how does this all work? It's quite simple: You take a picture of something you want to convert into a digital asset, then you upload that picture to the blockchain along with a set of data such as the item's name, description, category and other metadata. Then anyone who finds that picture can see your information on it and they will buy it from you if they desire it.

This means that the more pictures you upload the more transactions you can make, and the more transactions you make the less expensive your NFT will be. In this way you could go into business selling things on auction and make some money on it.

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To begin to mint nft, we will make a simple program to help us with our example transaction. The program can be found at https://github.com/SolanaPhantom/nft-example in a branch called mint_nft which has all of our code for generating nft for an item and also does some basic bidding of our NFT. In future articles we will show how to set your own things to be bid on and make money out of it.