Create NFT For Free

NFT Definition

Any Digital art Like image, animation, video etc minted on a blockchain and listed on a market place is termed as NFT.

Create And Sell NFT

To create and sell digital art as NFT you first need to have a crypto wallet like Metamask, Rainbow, Argent, imToken etc. This crypto wallet will be required at the time of login.

Here we will see how to set up a metamask wallet, it is an Etherium based cryptocurrency wallet. You can store and exchange ‘Ether’ and etherium based NFT in this wallet.

Metamask can be used as a web extension or mobile wallet application, best and easiest way is to download Metamask app from the app store.

Once installed and configured you will get above type of page here you can edit your wallet name as per your choice.

Marketplace selection 

Now after we have successfully set up our crypto wallet we will proceed to select the best marketplace for our NFT.

Here are some of the places where NFT’s can be bought or sold.

https://opensea.io/

https://zora.io/

https://rarible.com/

Marketplace selection depends on various factors like 

Blockchain Gas Fees (Minting  Fees) :  Gas fees is the main deciding factor, before selection of the platform check out the gas fees.

Blockchain gas fees are  high for etherium blockchain due to its popularity among NFT lovers whereas some newer blockchains have less or nill fees

For example you can mint your NFT for free on Blockchain polygon on 

https://opensea.io/

Listing fees or brokerage commission: listing fees of different marketplace  also vary as per their popularity

Popularity of Marketplace: popularity of marketplace is also one of the important factors of your NFT getting sold. So before selecting the place do a web survey for its popularity.

Create and Sell

Here, we will select opensea as the marketplace and polygon as the blockchain.

First of all visit the website

https://opensea.io/

On ‘opensea’ click on create button then on next window click on “walletconnect” if you are using same device on which wallet is installed Otherwise select as per your requiremets. 

If You click on walletconnect your wallet will launch and once you give the sign in permission you will be logged into the opensea platform.

Caution: NFT is a growing technology so the risk of scams and hacking are also high so be extra cautious while giving any permissions or visiting URLs.

After you’ve successfully logged in again click on create button this time you will be redirected to page where you have to browse and upload your digital art, give it a name, select the blockchain on which you want to host your NFT. Keep in mind etherium blockchain charges fees whereas polygon network is free at this time.

So you can start on polygon and thereafter move to etherium  blockchain when you feel it necessary.

So move on and create your First NFT share your experience in the comment box, if you face any difficulties in above steps please do write below in the comments.