Before this week, I thought minting an NFT on Solana meant learning Metaplex. It turns out you can...
Before this week, I thought minting an NFT on Solana meant learning Metaplex. It turns out you can mint a full NFT — with metadata, a collection, and live mutation — using just the Token Extensions program and about 50 lines of Node.js.
Here's what I actually built, what surprised me, and what I'd do differently.
The Mental Model: What Is a Solana NFT?
Strip away the marketplaces and the profile pictures and an NFT on Solana
is just a token mint with three properties:
Before this week I thought you needed Metaplex to build a real Solana NFT. It turns out you can mint...
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