How to mint an NFT on Solana
Upload art, set royalties and traits, and mint a Metaplex-standard NFT directly to your wallet.
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Connect your wallet
Phantom, Solflare, or Backpack. The mint authority is set to your connected wallet.
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Upload your asset
Image (PNG, JPG, GIF), music (MP3, WAV), video (MP4), or 3D (GLB) up to 250 megabytes. The fee scales with file size.
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Add metadata
Name, symbol, description. Optional attributes show as traits in Magic Eden and Tensor.
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Set royalty
A percentage between 0 and 10 routes to your wallet on every secondary sale that honors creator royalties.
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Sign the payment
The wallet popup shows the breakdown. Approve once and the NFT mints on-chain via the Metaplex Token Metadata program.
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Find it in your wallet
The NFT appears in Phantom and Solflare immediately. Marketplaces index within minutes.