How to create an NFT collection on VeChain

What you need before you start

• A VeChain wallet, for example VeWorld, with a little VTHO for the network fee of the deployment.
• Your art: either finished images with their metadata files, or the separate layers (backgrounds, bodies, accessories) to generate a collection from.
• A name, a description, a cover image and a banner for your mint page.
• A plan for the mint: the supply, the price per phase and who may mint when.

Create the collection step by step

1. 1Prepare or generate the artUpload your finished images and metadata, or open the PFP Studio, add your layers with their rarity weights and let it generate the whole collection in your browser. The studio exports the images and the metadata files.
2. 2Choose the supply and the royaltySet how many NFTs the collection has (up to 10,000) and the royalty you earn on every resale. You can keep a reserve that only you can mint, for the team or for giveaways.
3. 3Set your mint phasesAdd up to 8 phases. A phase has its own price, token, start time and limit per wallet, and can be open to everyone, to an allowlist, to holders of another collection or to people who burn an NFT.
4. 4Decide on a revealShow the final art right away, or hide it behind a placeholder until you reveal. A shuffled reveal draws one random number from the chain, so nobody can know which piece they will get.
5. 5Deploy your contractCheck the preview of your mint page and deploy. Deploying costs only the network fee. The contract is yours and is created from your wallet.
6. 6Get listed and share your mintYour launch appears on the Launchpad after it is approved. Share the link, the QR code and the ready-made post from your dashboard, and add the mint start to people's calendars.

What it costs

Deploying costs only the network fee. BlackVeMarket keeps 5% of every paid mint, split inside the mint transaction, so the creator is paid at once. Free mints and your reserve carry no fee. On resales the seller pays the marketplace fee and your royalty.

After the mint

Every minted NFT gets its place on a collection page on BlackVeMarket, where holders can list it, accept offers and trade it. Your dashboard shows your earnings, the minters and the progress of the mint.