Uploading collection artwork
A unique set derives its supply from the images you upload — one item per file. An edition drop uses one image many times, so you type the supply instead. Either way the artwork freezes at mint.
📷 Screenshot placeholder — Projects → New project → NFT collection, the artwork step.
What an NFT collection is
An NFT collection project mints your artwork as items of a collection on Solana, into a wallet you control, and lists them on the platform's marketplace where farmers buy and resell them. You earn the primary sales and a royalty on every resale.
A collection can be created only on a verified organisation with an active paid plan. Artwork is the part of a collection that cannot be undone, so it is worth understanding before you drop a folder in.
Three ways to provide the artwork
- From a template — the platform composes every item from one of your published marketplace templates (NFT → Marketplace templates). Pick the template and type the supply: it can't exceed the template's number of distinct combinations, or the platform's maximum for a set, so no two items repeat. Each item gets its own combination; its traits are written into the metadata, so buyers can filter by them and rarity is computed from the set. The first item becomes the collection cover. Composition runs before minting; if it fails, the collection page says so and Run again restarts it. Supply, artwork and the template version are fixed once composition starts. See Marketplace templates.
- Unique set — a distinct image for every item, for 1/1 galleries, PFP and generative drops. You upload one image per item; the supply is the number of files, up to the platform's maximum for a unique set, which the form shows. If you rendered a generative set, upload its output: the platform reads nothing else from it.
- Edition drop — one artwork, many identical editions, for passes, tickets and access keys. You type the supply, and the single image doubles as the collection cover.
Each file must be under the size the form shows; the platform sets it.
Storage and the mint charge
Every image is stored permanently, paid once per file, which is why the cost estimate moves as you add images. Minting has its own cost: the chain's rent and fees per item, plus the platform's flat mint fee shown as its own line.
Who pays storage and minting — you or the platform — is a platform setting. When it is you, the collection is created awaiting payment: the project page shows a quote, you pay it from your Fee payer wallet, and minting starts once the payment is accepted. A quote that expires is simply re-quoted. A collection left unpaid expires after the period the platform sets, and is deleted some days later — create it again to start over.
📷 Screenshot placeholder — the artwork uploader with the running cost estimate.
Royalty
The royalty is a percentage of every resale, enforced on-chain by the collection itself. The platform sets the ceiling and the form shows it. The royalty is written into the collection at mint and cannot be changed afterwards.
It is paid to one wallet, the creator wallet. There are no splits between several recipients.
The creator wallet
Choose where the items and the royalties go:
- Your organisation's payout wallet — the verified default, preselected.
- My personal wallet — the linked wallet of the member creating the collection. The items and royalties go to that person alone, and keep going to them even if they leave the team.
A typed address is never accepted: it has to be a wallet the organisation or the member has proved they control.
Where the items land
The mint worker creates the collection and then mints the editions in batches into the creator wallet, and the collection goes live once every item is minted. From there you list items on the marketplace at the price you choose, in SOL. On a first sale the platform takes its primary-sale fee and the rest is yours. On a resale the platform's trading fee, your royalty and a creator commission set by the platform are taken from the price, and the reseller keeps the net.
If the platform moderates your collection
The platform can pause trading in a collection, remove it from the marketplace, or hide a single item. You are notified with the reason, and paid purchases already made still settle. Each restriction can be appealed once from the project page; the platform either lifts it or upholds it with a reason you can see.
What is permanent
The artwork and the supply it implies, the edition order, the collection's symbol, the royalty and the creator wallet are fixed at mint. The project's description, links and product details remain editable.