Contract : Opportunity = Smart Contract : Token

Because, actually, creating a token is an opportunity that is wildly underrated so far. In the first episode of this project, I’ve tried to make some examples on how you could leverage the usage of NFTs. If you still think it can’t work, let’s have a chat and I’ll be happy to give you my hints on this.

Getting back to our project, we’ve seen how to deploy on Goerli your Smart Contract. Let’s make a step ahead and we begin minting our token!
Clicking on our Test page, we will see this view:

By clicking on “mint a token on Goerli” you will be directed to the following page:

You know now that “these tokens aren’t gonna mint themselves”, uh? So let’s test on how to Mint them on Goerli! We’ve already explained in the previous lesson on how to ask for fake ETH on the Goerli test network, in case you’ve missed it have a look at the previous one.

Now hit the “+ Create” button:

You may see that, in this new page, there’s only a “Single Token” section.
Who knows why?

The answer is easy: because yesterday we’ve decided to test how to mint a ERC1155 token, a fungible one. In case we’ve tried the ERC721 one, Manifold would have shown another option on how to mint in batch multiple tokens.

Anyhow, by clicking on “single token”, a new page will appear:

Here’s where you will actually put all the information about your token as:

• you can upload the image of the token;

• you can insert the title of the artwork;

• you can insert a description of the token (as for example what it will enable or what stands behind the token);

• you can put a link to redirect to your website;

• you can add multiple information as metadata of the token itself

By putting more properties, you will be able to add more filters to the description of your NFT once it get listed on a marketplace (like OpenSea, Rarible, Gem.xyz etc…) therefore add as much properties as you want to make everything more clear.

As an example, this is how I completed the information about my token:

Right after, I’ve generated with Dream Studio the image of my token and here it goes:

Now we are good to mint our token on the Goerli Network before going to the Mainnet. This is very important, as when minting to the Mainnet you will still be able to make changes but you will have to pay the gas fee everytime… and we don’t like to lose money, uh? ;)

So, let’s push the information and click on “Mint to Goerli”…

Wen Mint, then? NOW 👇

The process will begin…

… and that’s it! You’ve minted your first Token on Goerli!
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy 🍋

Hope you’ve like this second part of the token minting, now prepare your wallet with some ETH (not much, a 0.08 ETH should work) and get ready to mint tokens… FOR REAL!

LFG 🚀