Manifold

Mint your own creative platform

Manifold empowers digital creators with tools and applications enabling true creative sovereignty and the ability to create innovative NFT experiences for their audiences.

Deploying contracts

Manifold allows you to build your own personalized Web3 creative platform and sell and airdrop digital assets as non-fungible tokens (ERC-721) or multi tokens (ERC-1155).

It empowers you to launch your own independent smart contracts without any coding. The contract is deployed and signed by you, hence to retain full control over it.

Your Manifold contract allows you to set royalties for your NFTs in order to tell the different marketplaces how much they should pay you when a secondary sale happen

It provides you the ability to deploy to testnets before having to make changes directly on mainnet, either Ethereum or Optimism Layer 2.

Minting tokens

Deploying your own sovereign contract allows creators to list tokens for sale in two ways:

Pre-minting

The first option for selling your tokens is pre-minting the tokens. Here you will be minting tokens to yourself and covering the gas fees.

After the tokens have been minted and exist on the blockchain, they are listed on sale on third-party platforms like OpenSea, LooksRare, and Rarible or on Manifold marketplace (called Gallery).

Lazy-minting

The other option to sell tokens is by using a mint page called Claim page. Deploying a Claim page allows you to create rules for the sale of tokens that haven't been created yet.

The tokens aren't created on chain until your collectors pay to mint a token from the Claim page.

In both cases you can airdrop your tokens to a list of addresses.

Claim Page: selling tokens in limited or open editions

Use the Claim Page to create a page for limited or open editions of tokens that lets your collectors to mint tokens themselves (lazy minting). You can not list a pre-minted token on a Claim Page.

Claim Page allows you to specify the wallets that can claim or that will receive the airdrop of your tokens through a CSV file. The format of the CSV file needs to include the following fields:

1. address: the wallet addresses that are allowed to claim

2. value: a value indicating how many tokens can each wallet claim

Gallery: selling tokens in the Manifold marketplace

Use Gallery to create a single page auction site for your pre-minted artworks. All listings created with the Gallery app in will appear on the gallery feed.

Anyone can use a share link (a referral link with appended wallet address or ENS) to help drive winning bids and earn 6.9% of an artist's final sale.

Be aware that listing via Manifold Gallery will require a gas transaction to transfer your token to the Manifold marketplace contract. This is a custodial contract where your token will be held until your auction is completed and settled (or canceled).

Summing up, you can use Manifold for different things:

1. creating your own NFT contract

2. minting tokens on the contract and distribute them to marketplaces such as OpenSea, LooksRare, and Rarible

3. selling your tokens directly on the Manifold marketplace

4. airdropping your tokens to your friends and collectors or asking them to claim the tokens

Links

• Manifold site

• Manifold Studio

• Manifold Studio documentation

Homework

1. create your contract on Manifold

2. pre-mint a token and put it on sale in the Manifold marketplace (Gallery)

3. lazy-mint a token using the Claim page

4. airdrop the token to some of your friends

5. ask some other friends to claim the token