If you regularly visit my posts then you know that I always wish to try new things, and share my experience with you - or even a tutorial about how I did it.
Today I thought I would try the free-minting (without any gas) of OpenSea - where I will create an NFT out of one photograph.
Why I am trying out OpenSea?
It is a popular NFT platform, it has the 'free minting' option and .. why not?
Let's see some stats about OpenSea
https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/opensea/
34 Million NFTs and 1 Million Collections, not bad, huh?
There are also a lot of followers on their social media
| 519K followers on insta | 748.7K followers on twitter |
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How to mint a free NFT on OpenSea
You will first need to create an OpenSea account, for which you will need a MetaMask Wallet
(You can check out the end of this post for more resources & videos)
1. Create a collection
You will need to have an idea what the collection name should be, I will create a collection for my most impressive sunsets and today I will post my first one
Visit: https://opensea.io/collections
Click on 'Create a Collection'
These are all the information that will be necessary for you to create your collection so be ready to provide it..
ATTENTION
Please make sure you select Polygon as your Blockchain - if you select Ethereum, you will have to pay fees.
Creating a new item
After you have created your collection, you are ready to create a new item
https://opensea.io/collection/sunsets-by-katycrete
After you create it, you will be able to 'freeze your metadata'
After you finish, you need to create the item and you get a success message.
To sell it, you need to click on 'sell' - it is not done automatically.
After you click on 'sell' you will have to enter your price in ETH
I am thinking of the price
I finally decided to list my first NFT here for a much less price - only ETH 0.003
($11.60)
Before the item gets listed, you will need to unlock the currency & sign the transaction with your wallet.
You can find it in this link here
Also, please remember to add (import token of) WETH (Wrapped Ethereum)
What did you think about the process?
I found it very straight forward & very easy.
I may get back here tomorrow to add a few more of my sunsets
Please note that this is also very new from me, so I will be updating this post with more info as I continue.
PLEASE MAKE SURE that you have set the blockchain to POLYGON when you create the collection.
From now on, I guess it is about promotion of your NFT and that you really need to make connections if you wish to be successful.
If you have any tips and wish to share, please let me know below!
Thank you for visiting!
Some extra resources:
https://blog.opensea.io/announcements/introducing-the-collection-manager/
