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Mint Settings

The mint settings page allows us to do 2 things with our Token Project:

  • Mint Tokens
  • Burn Tokens

Deploy Contract​

Before minting or burning can begin, you need to deploy the minting smart contract on the cardano blockchain. By clicking "Deploy Contract" you will be asked to sign a transaction that will put the smart contract on the blockchain at a specific transaction hash and transaction index so it can be found for future use.

Mint Settings Contract Deploy

Mint Settings Contract Deploy

After signing the transaction and putting the contract on the blockchain, your app will look like this:

Select Mint Type

Mint Tokens​

Lets try minting some tokens! Click on our Blob token that we created and click the yellow "Mint Token" button at the top. If we had multiple tokens in the project we could mint both at once as well.

Note: The "Smart Contract Settings" in the box below shows you which address the smart contracts we are using are located at on the Cardano blockchain.

Select Mint Type 2

After clicking the yellow "Mint Token" button we will now be asked to confirm the tokens we want to mint as well as the amount of tokens. Lets leave everything as is and click the yellow "Mint Tokens" button.

After clicking this button we must sign the transactions and then we have successfully minted tokens!

Burn Tokens​

Finally, now that we have minted some tokens and they are in our wallet, lets burn the tokens to showcase how that works.

In the "Select Mint Type" box, click "Token Burn". Similarly to minting tokens,