How To Mint Solana NFTs (Step By Step Beginner Guide)

i am very excited because today i am minting my first nft so in this video i'm going to walk you step by step exactly through how to do this so if you want to mint your first nft on solana you can just follow this video and see exactly how to do it if you're not familiar with what a mint is it's

basically when the nfts for the first time are released out into the world so what i'm going to be doing is coming onto this website right here which is where the project is i'm going to purchase the nft directly from here using a cryptocurrency called solana once i have that nft then i could go ahead and resell it on a website like magic eden there are other marketplaces to sell nfts you might have heard of open seas that's it that's for ethereum base nft projects but for solana magic eden is a very popular one but i'm not going to be doing that i'm just interested in getting in right now getting these nfts this is a project i've been looking at called dronies and i'm really excited for this i made a video last week explaining exactly why i'm so excited about dronies you can check that out if you want to know why

so what i need to do is i need to get the cryptocurrency that i need in order to purchase these which is solana so you can go to any exchange that you use to purchase cryptocurrency that supports solana if you've never purchased cryptocurrency before i would just sign up for a coinbase. com account it's not the cheapest in terms of fees but it's the easiest one to use and if you're just getting started with cryptocurrency that's a very good one to start with so i have my affiliate link for coinbase down below i think if you sign up through that link you get like a little bit of a fraction of bitcoin which can help you with your portfolio so it's very important you do this step early because once you put money into coinbase you have to wait a few days in order to transfer it out so you need to make sure you do that early enough so that the money can get out the crypto can get out and so you can use it for the actual purchase of the nft once the mint happens so what we're going to do is once you have a coinbase account get everything set up and connect to your bank account go ahead and click on the top right where it says buy sell and right here you're not buying bitcoin for this project you are going to purchase solana right there and i make sure i have the right bank there now it says how much do you want to purchase now every project is going to cost a different amount for the initial mint of the nft one of the benefits of this though is that when you get in at the mint price it's usually a lot cheaper than what it's going to end up being on a secondary market like magic eden this is not financial advice but just kind of what i've been observing and that's why most people are excited and really eager to get in at the mint price of course you might get in at the min price and then these nfts never even resell on other marketplaces like magic eden so there's always that risk now how much is it so anytime you're looking at an nft you should get involved in the community follow them on twitter join the discord group from them and that is where the best and most current and most accurate information is about the projects big warning here is that there's a lot of people out there who are going to try to scam you in fact some of these nft collections as a whole are scams so you always have to do your own research on them but even for projects that are legit i do think dronies is a completely legit project there will be people who try to scam you anyway so what they'll do is they'll pretend to be dronies and say hey send me your solana here's the address you should send it to when it's not really the dronies team that is why i always make sure i'm getting the right information directly from them on discord from their website from twitter and i cross check everything to make sure they're all matching but here on discord i can see okay the mint is happening february 2nd and you can get one for 3 solana if you're on the pre-sale in other words white list or you can get one for 3. 25 if not i am on the white list so i only have to pay three solana i want to purchase three of them so i need nine in total so coming here to coinbase if i just put nine in here that's going to be us dollars that's not what i want so instead i point i click on this up and down arrow right here and this allows me to enter in how much solana i want to purchase so i would put in here nine now you probably only want to purchase maybe enough for one so you'd put in one three rather for one of them now this alone is not going to be enough you need to purchase a little bit more than the actual cost of the nft and that's because there are fees that will come out when you actually do the purchase so for solana it's usually pretty safe to do something like 3. 1 which unfortunately there we go 3. 1 and that will be enough to cover one of these dronies plus a little bit more for fees then you can click on preview buy and it will tell you okay you're going to purchase 3. 1 solana the price for you is going to be 277 now that's always going to change as the price of solana goes up and down tells you what your coinbase fee is right there and then what the total price is and if that all looks good then just go ahead and click buy now like i said you can do this on any exchange and some of them will be cheaper four dollars i don't think it's terrible in coinbase but you can definitely get it cheaper in other places now i didn't actually do that purchase because i already had enough solana in here for what i need to do but you'll see this within a few minutes if not instantly all your salon is now in here when you click on the left where it says assets now like i said before you are not going to be able to immediately transfer these funds this solana out of coinbase into where it is it needs to go in order to actually make the purchase on the dronies or whatever the project is whatever their website is so you have to wait a few days for that to happen between three and five days sometimes longer so once you are able to transfer it out you should get an email about that then you can come back here and i'll show you what to do next okay so

you can't actually purchase the nft off of the website using coinbase you instead have to move it to another wallet called phantom if you're not familiar with what wallets are it's basically where you hold the keys to your cryptocurrency so what you want to do is just come to google and search for phantom wallet and you'll see it's at phantom. app make sure you are downloading the correct thing and you'll see if you're using chrome you can add this directly to chrome this is a chrome extension so click on that add to chrome now it will give you the option to create a new wallet or use a secret recovery phrase you're probably doing this for the first time so click on create new wallet this is your secret recovery phrase this is critically important this is something you never want to share with anyone because if you put a thousand dollars worth of solana into this wallet and someone gets this phrase then they're going to be able to take all the money out of your wallet similarly you never want to lose these words this phrase this recovery phrase because if you do and let's say you lose access to your wallet maybe your computer gets destroyed you can use this phrase to recover your wallet so i'm going to click copy don't worry this is not a wallet i'm actually going to use i'll click ok i saved it somewhere now you have to create a password okay so i created that password and now i'm getting out pen and paper i'm going to write down that seed phrase and the password on actual paper i'm not going to save this anywhere digitally email this to myself i want to protect this information i'm going to write it down in multiple times on two different pieces of paper and save those in two different locations to protect this all right so now if you click on the so the wallet right here you can see here it is i'm going to click on settings down here on the bottom right i'm going to rename this one main wallet and now i want to click on these three lines on the top left and i want to add another wallet and there's a very good reason we're doing this is another one of those things that's very important i'll show you in a few seconds but for now just create a new wallet and i'll click on the settings on the bottom right and this one i'm going to call burner this is going to be a burner wallet and you'll see why so now click on these three lines you can see you have two wallets here one is your main wallet and one is your burner wallets so now let's actually move the salana from coinbase or whatever exchange you're using over here to the phantom wallet and specifically i'm going to be moving this to my burner wallet right here so here on coinbase i'm going to click on send slash receive on the top right

and i'm going to be sending so down here where it says pay with i'm going to choose solana and for how much i'm just going to click on send all if you want to send a specific amount you can enter in the specific dollar amount or click on this right here and enter in the specific amount of solana but for most people for most of you out there you're just going to be sending all of it so you can click on send all now where it says to this is the address that you're going to be sending it to which will be your phantom wallet address so coming up to phantom right here this is my real actual wallet and you see i have two of them right here the main wallet and the burner i already have some in the burner wallet and i want to send the rest of it to the burner wallet why are we using a burner wallet well as you're going to see in a few minutes when i actually make the purchase on the dronies website for the nft that i'm minting they require me to connect up my phantom wallet now i have a lot of trust in dronies i do but again i don't have trust in other people out there who are trying to scam so there's been instances where some of these nft projects have been a complete scan scam and when you connect your wallet to the website they trick you in a way and end up dumping or pulling out all the funds out of your wallet so i'm only going to put in this burner wallet exactly what i need the exact amount that i need plus a little bit more again for fees in order to actually make the nft purchase that way if it is a scam if something does go wrong i'll only be out that amount of funds another reason to do it is hey maybe dronies is 100 completely legit but let's say on the day of the mint their website gets hacked and then you're connecting your wallet to the scammers the hackers kind of you know server and they're able to steal your funds that way so these are all things i don't want to happen so i only put in the burner wallet exactly how much i need once i actually get the nft i will send it to my main wallet from my burner wallet okay so we want to send the solana to the burner wallet so i'll make sure i'm in the correct wallet here the burner and all i have to do is click right here at the top and actually copies the address for me you can see it starts with e8 and ends with bbd so if i paste it in here i always confirm that the first four digits in the last four digits are a match e8 bd and the rest of them are the same as well so i'm going to send everything to my burner wallet the note i never do it is very very very important that where it says pay with you choose solana and that you're sending it to a solana wallet in a solana address if you try to send solana to a bitcoin wallet the funds will just be lost they'll go nowhere so only send from solana over to a solana wallet which is exactly what i'm doing right here now click on continue i will double check this so now i'm going to look at this wallet address again k9 or kq that's all good ends in tgbd all right we are all good there that is a match right there and the fee here is zero solana the network fee is very small and i'll just click on send now all right now i got to pull out my phone for the two factor authentication and once you do that it is done now don't panic here if you don't see it in your wallet right away it can take a few minutes i usually find that this takes about maybe about 20 minutes or so oh that's just a lot faster than i thought so there it is already uh but you know sometimes the network's a little bit busier so it can take time so now i have the solana here let's see how much i have i want to double check this i have a total of 9. 3195 sol which is more than what i need in order to actually purchase the dronies that i want and now we just have to wait for it to actually mint now every mint supplies the link for the

men in different ways so this is why it's very important to be active in the community you know following them on youtube or twitter or discord or all of those really to get an idea of how the mint process is going to work so for dronies i know that if i come over to the discord i can see on the left there is something called official links and i'm going to have open and ready their website their twitter the discord their instagram youtube as well so i'll make sure that i'm looking at all of this at the time that the mint's supposed to happen to make sure that the link they supply for the mint is the same across all these different social media platforms that way if one of them gets hacked like let's say their twitter gets hacked and the hacker sends out a fake uh fake uh link to a fake mint in order to steal your money the other ones will the other social media networks will say hey that's not the right one this is the correct one i know what dronis is planning to do which i think is a really awesome idea is that when the mint is launching they are actually going to be live on youtube so that we can actually see their faces we know it's actually them i've been following them on youtube and on twitter so i know what they look like sound like i'll make sure it's really them so the link i'm getting on youtube during that live is the right one so i'm getting all of this queued up and i have my wallet cued up i feel ready to go the early bird mint is happening at 7 00 am eastern time and even though i have a few hours several hours actually as a white list member as an early bird to get in i still want to get in right as it starts so i'm going to be waking up at 5 00 a. m mountain time which is 7 00 a. m eastern time so i can be one of the first people to mint one of these dronies just in case they sell out even during the white list so i'm gonna go to sleep and i'll be up at 5 a. m for the mint all right let's do this all right so it is currently 4 46 a. m for me i am up i'm really excited for this mint i got everything lined up so what i'm going to do what it what i did last night forgot to show you guys was that i

uh connected my wallet to the website so what i did was i came over to phantom and made sure i was signed into it and unlocked it then right on the website there is a button that allowed me to connect my wallet so i just clicked on that and then i was all connected up and i made sure that i only gave permission for the things i wanted it to do which was to be able to asked ask for permission to for transactions that i then had to approve once it did that then the screen changed and i had this countdown and that's currently what i'm seeing right now so now it says there's 12 minutes until the mint starts i have open the youtube live so here they are chatting i've been with these guys now for a month following their projects so i know this is legit and they have the link to the mint right here which matches up the one on my website again just trying to be really careful to make sure that everything matches up and everything is good this might be a bit overkill right most projects from what i understand they don't sell out that quickly i don't need to be here at 5 00 a. m especially for a project that

has 9495 available but this is part of the excitement this is what nfts are all about building community having excitement about it you know reminds me when i go to star wars movies for midnight premiere it's just like a lot of fun to do that or when i go to disney world and get right at the gate right when it opens like that's part of the fun excitement and i'm here i can talk to people in the chat i can come to the discord and chat with people here i'm just really pumped to be here and this is just a lot of fun so uh we got a few minutes so i'm going to pause the video for now before the mint starts and just follow along with the live stream so a couple cool things i want to show you guys before this actually starts so yesterday shaq yeah shaq himself tweeted this out right here this is a droney that the team had made for him specifically and he loved it so much he retweeted it or tweeted it and said i love the mystery behind the collection so they have the support dronies of shaq himself which is really cool that there's such an awesome just team behind this the other thing i forgot to show you guys is this so because i'm on the white list

i got these the other day so inside my wallet right where nfts usually show up which is by clicking here i have this these are my pre-sale tokens you see it says three here so what this allows me to do is buy the nft during the pre-sale so because i'm on the white list what i did was i came into the germany's discord and not every nft is going to do this i believe we're all going to do the pre-sale the white list differently but what dronies did is i just came in here and there was a section here where i had to actually give them my wallet address so in other words right here this address that we use to send the solana to it i just copy that and put it into the discord according to their instructions and because of that then sent me these three tokens and so i'm only able to buy during the pre-sale right now in three minutes because i have these tokens so um not every project's going to do it the same way but that's pretty cool way so that guarantees that only people on the white list are actually able to buy during the pre-sale these are some of the other dronies that they've shown us so far they look really awesome now as far as i know the way this works is that they they build out the dronies there they draw them up and then because there's 10 000 of them they're kind of randomly generated based on different attributes but there's about a 100 of them that are hand drawn so to speak where they're actually just made individually so they're not generated and those would be the super rare ones i'm not really sure to be honest how to tell those apart from the generated ones so uh you know chances are i'll get a generated one because there's only 100 out of like 10 000 that are hand drawn um so we'll figure that out together there's every single kind of nft collection has a rarity scale where it will tell you um how rare your nft is all right here we go this is it

three two one mint i'm going to approve this transaction am i doing this right what's it doing good job it worked did it work let's see what it looks like well i definitely am out the money oh oh whoa that is so cool that looks so dope oh my god that's so much cooler than i thought it would look that looks so awesome all right let's do that again so i'm gonna be minting three of these so i'll do another one i don't know if there's a strategy if i should space them out if i should do them all instantly i don't know oh there's oh that one looks cool too how do i see oh sick those both look sick that was like more like robotic i love that first one though oh but that one has a coin in its mouth that looks cool can i click on it oh yeah cool wow that one has a lot of coin that looks really cool and glasses so it's kind of like me right now should i just do the third one now should i wait i don't know listen i don't know let's just do it but that's it that's my last one yeah good okay and what i got all right so i still have like a dollar or 31 dollars worth of solana in here so let's see i have three in here now oh that one looks sick look i got a background so i've heard that like different backgrounds are worth different things and like plain ones aren't worth as much as you know like backgrounds like that so cool i got like three really cool backgrounds uh really cool dronies these are awesome so happy with these cool so now okay i gotta transfer these so let me i don't know which one to transfer so let me try transferring the money first or the solana so now everything's in the

burner wallet i want to add it to my main wallet where it's safer so i'm going to select the solana take all of it and right here in the address book i'm just going to choose my main wallet and click next send all right so i just heard from the team that they've sold over 2 000 already in just the past four minutes so pretty crazy you can see how these things can sell out pretty quickly okay so yeah it all came over so that worked so let me now move over the dronies themselves so i'll start with this one send the main wallet next oh wait shoot i messed up oh crap see i made a mistake all right so you learned from my mistake so i'll go back to the main wallet and i'll send this to the burner because i need a little bit of solana in my burner wall to move the dronies to the main wallet so don't move the solana first all right let's just go to burner all right let's send this to my main wallet okay let's do the other ones oh my gosh guys they just said anything with a mask is super rare so that is really sick i think this one might be a little bit rarer and it's got the background i'm so pumped for this guys this is like exciting because not only like do you got something cool but like i don't even know what it is yet like all right that one's good this one i think is just so cool this is my first one so send all right so now is the time when you get the brag so is when i'm going to uh upload photos of what i got to discord to twitter and um show them what i got so i want to show them this one first because i think it's pretty rare oh no this one save image as i think this is why i'm supposed to do this and now i've just sent it over in discord inside the discord for the dronies nft group which is a lot of fun because now everyone's posting up their different dronies there's some really sick cool ones in here i've seen some of those hand-drawn ones as well that are really neat so what i'll do is down below let me know which one of mine you guys think is the coolest do you like the hawaiian guy the skateboarder or the guy with the mask i can't decide which one i think is the coolest so let me know in the comments section also in the description down below i'll have links to dronies if you want it mint during the public mint today the day i'm releasing this you can go ahead and check that out using what i teach you in this video once it sells out i'll have links to dronies on the secondary market which is probably like magic eden where you can buy it from other people who have already minted it while you're down there also make sure to subscribe to the channel because i'll be doing an update video as the value of these dronies go up and as i mint other projects i already have some other ones in mind and make sure to give this video a big thumbs up if you found it helpful thanks so much for checking it out guys and see you in the next video