Considered deprecated (at least for now) in favor of elven.tools

NFT minting on the Elrond blockchain using erdjs SDK. It requires deployed smart contract which implements esdt_nft_create.

Be aware that it automatically mints in a loop If you need a more advanced solution, which is more suited to the NFT launches, check out elven-tools-cli and the newest version of the elven-nft-minter.

Smart Contract example which works well with current version of the tool: elven-nft-minter-sc (v0.1.1 only!)

Quick walkthrough video

This is a documentation for v4

• for v3 check here
• for v2 check here.
• for v1 check here.

Please always check and try to understand the code and possible limitations and bugs before using it for actual products

The script relays on nft-art-maker v4.0.0! output metadata.json file. Check out the repo, and you'll find more info about it.

It would also be possible to use it without the nft-art-maker, but you need to prepare a similar metadata.json file as here; you would also need to pack the files into ipfs car file and upload them. Files in the car archive example: 1.png, 1.json, 2.png, 2.json .....

First of all elven-mint script assumes that you have deployed a smart contract which implements the esdt_nft_create. (See the link to example!) The createNft function should look like:

• https://github.com/juliancwirko/elven-nft-minter-sc/blob/main/src/lib.rs#L63

It also requires that you have your ESDT token (collection token/id), which it will use for NFT minting. It should also have proper roles assigned, and you'll be able to add these in the config file. Read more about the configuring ESDT for NFT minting here.

You would also need to have a couple of files to be able to start:

1. Wallet Keystore JSON file. The one you'll get when creating a web wallet - it would be best to create a new one for the Smart Contract. But you can always recover and download the JSON file using https://devnet-wallet.elrond.com/recover and your seed phrases. (There is no support for the PEM files here, but I plan to add it).
2. You would also need to have the metadata.json generated using mentioned above nft-art-maker.
3. Finally, you would need a config file .elvenmintrc where you need to provide a couple of crucial pieces of information. Below you'll find an example.

Important! Keep the files private, especially password and Keystore wallet files. To avoid any mistakes, you would need to write a wallet password with every script usage.

So your directory should look similar to this:

metadata.json
wallet.json
.elvenmintrc

In this place, you will call the npx elven-mint command. Or you can also install it globally npm install -g elven-mint and then call elven-mint.

.elvenmintrc file with examples:

{
  "smartContractAddress": "erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqpgqqfxkus66fkjpjuxlqnhzqwk5ru9h5smwvafsy9p3g0",
  "collectionTokenId": "ELO-5f0be3",
  "initialPriceOfNFT": "100000000000000000",
  "royaltiesCut": '10',
  "currentChain": "devnet",
  "walletFileName": "wallet.json",
  "createNftFunctionName": "createNft",
  "metadataSummaryFileName": "metadata.json",
}

• smartContractAddress - Smart Contract which mints NFTs [default: undefined]
• collectionTokenId - Your created ESDT token for NFT collection - should also have all required roles [default: undefined]
• initialPriceOfNFT - Price after mint (1 egld has 18 zeros) [default: undefined]
• royaltiesCut - royalties cut (format is a value between '0' an '10000' (0 meaning 0% and 10000 meaning 100%) [default: '0']
• currentChain - Chain to be used (local, devnet, testnet, mainnet) [default: devnet]
• walletFileName - Your wallet json file name [default: wallet.json]
• createNftFunctionName - Create NFT function name in your smart contract [default: createNft]
• metadataSummaryFileName - Your metadata.json file name (generated by nft-art-maker) [default: metadata.json]
• claimTokensAfterMint - This option will allow claiming tokens after minting. They will be sent to the caller's wallet after Smart Contract mints them. When false, they will stay on the Smart Contract [default: false]

It is crucial to be able to resume minting from the place where the process ended. It isn't possible yet. But there is a manual way of doing that. There is a helper which will console log the last sent transaction on every exit, and it looks like:

elven-mint finished!
Last sent transaction:  {
  no: 2,
  name: '#2',
  txHash: '640232838d50e02102e279ec71b892e9d12aaddc85476a094001af38942fb628'
}

With this info, you can double-check all in the blockchain explorer, and you can modify your metadata.json file accordingly. So, for example, you can remove all first editions for which transactions are already on-chain and then restart the script.

I plan to implement a resume script, but this isn't so crucial for now.

You can always install it globally if you are not sure which version you use. Do: npm install elven-mint -g

You can always check which version you have by: elven-mint -v

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