Welcome back to Crypto Noobs!
It's the most popular crypto educational series on Hive! Not really, but we like to have fun here. I'm just a regular dude on the internet that's obsessed with crypto and I like to teach people how to do shit with it. In the last episode, I broke down how to buy CUB without leaving Metamask. Today, I'm going to show you how to mint your very first NFT on Opensea without spending a cent on gas fees!
How to Mint on Opensea Using Polygon
So you've been thinking about creating an NFT collection to try your hand at selling digital art. Maybe you're an artist or a musician looking to take the sale of your assets into your own hands without having to pay for a service or worry about logistics. NFTs unlock a world of possibilities for a lot of people and businesses. You might have heard about people spending large amounts of ETH just to mint NFTs, hell you may have done it yourself. I've spend my fair share of ETH on NFT gas fees and they are nasty. The good thing is, we can still take advantage of the Ethereum blockchain by using layer 2 Polygon. Opensea supports Polygon NFTs with gas free transactions so even if you have no MATIC in your wallet, you can still mint your NFTs! Here's how you do it.
First, head to OpenSea and connect your wallet. If your wallet has not been configured to connect to Polygon, go here and follow the steps first.
Once your wallet is connected to OpenSea, you can either jump right into creating your first NFT or you can create a Collection if you're planning on creating multiple NFTs for a collection. For the purpose of this guide, we're just going to create an individual NFT with no collection. Click on "Create".
Once you click Create, you're taken to the very simple to use NFT creator built right into OpenSea. Now you need to add your media. Whether it be a JPG, a GIF, or even an MP4 file... Almost anything can be an NFT. Click on the picture image and upload your media. Next, you need to name the NFT and you also have the option to link to an external website.
I'm minting an NFT of this graphic I created for a post a month or so ago.
After that, you need to add a description. This is what people will be able to see on the NFT listing. You also have the option to add it to a collection if you created one. For this example, we did not create a collection.
Moving on, you have the option to add different traits, levels, and stats to the NFT. For example if you wanted to add a Rarity trait, you can do that under properties. There's tons of customizable options here. Don't forget to set the supply for the NFT. That means how many will be minted.
You can even add unlockable content for owners of the NFT. This is a really cool feature that you may want to take advantage of in the future.
Next, we need to select the Polygon blockchain so we don't have to pay for the gas fee using our kidneys.
Once you've done that, click Create. After a few seconds you'll get a confirmation that your NFT has been minted. Bam!
Now you can see your NFT and you can list it for sale!
Click Sell at the top and you can set the price in ETH.
Sign with Metamask and you're done!
Now your NFT is available for sale and you've spent no money. Congrats!
You're well on your way to becoming a famous NFT artist now. I'll leave you to it. If for some reason you want one of these you can check them out for yourself here. I don't recommend buying one at all. Congrats on minting your first NFT! Make sure to follow me for more guides and things in the future! Check out my list of useful links below as well!
Thanks for reading! Much love.
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Saw this from ListNerds and had to give it a read...
Oh wow. I mean, I'm about as useful with Metamask as a toad lol But this break down is straight forward.
So important for ease of use with this stuff and if not, the ability to follow directions like this are critical!
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Thanks for stopping by! Hopefully you learned something :)
Also happy to see that my first ListNerds email is getting out there.
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Great write up. I've used everything but the metadata rarity type stuff lol idk that part of it I just don't get what the point of it is in terms of artwork. Now for those freakin what I consider dumb meme random generate apes and crap it makes sense but I really don't get why people are into that besides trying to make a buck and that's the sole driving force that I believe will blow up in either faces. But who knows I could be totally wrong :)
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In the grand scheme of things, the metadata means nothing for random shit like the one I minted. If it's an NFT for a game, it can have attack level, health, etc... But yeah, the whole bored ape thing makes my head hurt.
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😭 I'm glad I'm not the only one haha it reminds me of layer 2 shitcoins compared to real legitimate projects. It crashes and burns hard fast but the legitimate ones continue to rise. Stats for gaming does make sense didn't think about that thanks!
NFT shit coins lol. Yeah, there's a ton of actual use case for NFT metadata
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Great, this is the excuse I need to start working on the Polygon Network. Now I have to think of a good NFT idea :)
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There ya go! Good luck with your NFTs!
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Thank you for the information. I'm glad to get the information
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Great content
Thanks!
Nice to know that we can create our NFT for free
Superb info
regards
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Thanks and good luck!
This is very insightful, I'd be sure to check it out.
Thanks for this
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Thanks for stopping by.
Great tutorial and a step-by-step walkthrough in order to mint an NFT on OpenSea. Having now the option to list it on Polygon makes more sense compared to Ethereum fees.
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Right, and you can mint all day long with zero fees.
Thank you for your informative post I was caught out the first time, this time I followed your lead and
https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/18389967159528058008227781828651272521269810648771114912825829815693543998440/
Awesome! Love it
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Nice. Have you sold any nfts there?
Personally, I have not.