now that we've introduced ourselves and explained the basics, are you ready to start collecting music and begin your journey as a catalog owner?  here's a breakdown of how it works.

you have two options - using your self-managed crypto wallet or using your credit card.  let's start off with the self-managed crypto wallet.

SELF MANAGED CRYPTO WALLET

1. connect your wallet to the anotherblock website

2. make sure you have enough ethereum in your wallet to cover the price of the nft and gas fees

3. mint

4. congratulations!  the nft is now in your self managed wallet.  you will now start earning royalties when the song is streamed

if you’re on the allowlist you are able to mint during the pre-sale that starts at 4pm CET.  the pre-sale will start three hours ahead of the public sale.

if there are shares left after the pre-sale, the remaining NFTs will be available for purchase in the public sale starting at 7pm CET.  as mentioned above, the public sale will start three hours after the pre-sale.

you will need to have ethereum in your wallet in order to pay for your nft and the additional transaction fee (also known as gas fee).

examples of wallets you can use are metamask and rainbow wallet.

CREDIT CARD

for credit card purchases we are using paper.xyz, a safe and trusted third party payment provider.  it involves creating an account on an external website so make sure to follow the steps closely.

1. sign up using your email address and create a paper.xyz-account

2. authenticate your account by clicking the link in the authentication email in your inbox

3. click “mint with credit card”

4. enter your information and proceed through the check-out process (just like any other e-commerce website)

5. congratulations!  the nft is now in your paper.xyz wallet.  you will now start earning royalties when the song is streamed

if you’re on the allowlist you are able to mint during the pre-sale.  the pre-sale will open three hours before the public sale begins.

if there are shares left after the pre-sale, the remaining NFTs will be available for purchase in the open public sale.  as mentioned above, the public sale (7pm CET) will open three hours after the pre-sale (4pm CET).

regardless of your choice of payment method, you are able to hold, sell or gift your nft as you wish.  examples of nft marketplaces where you can sell your nft is opensea, rarible and nifty gateway.

if you successfully completed the steps in one of the guides above - congratulations!  you have now begun your journey to becoming a catalog owner.  thank you for being a part of our mission of democratizing music ownership.