How to easily launch an NFT on Flow Blockchain 2024 Edition

Launching NFTs on Flow is now simpler than ever thanks to platforms like FLOAT, Gigantik, 24 Karat, Rarible X, Matrix Market and Flow Ordinals.

Each platform has its own special features, catering to different needs which we’ll explore below - from rewarding attendance, selling digital collectibles, customizable NFT marketplaces and tools for brand engagement. 

Some have minimal or no fees at all while others are more catered to enterprise.

All platforms allow you to easily harness the advanced capabilities of the Flow blockchain with NO coding experience required.

Let’s look into each so you can launch your first NFT on Flow today.

For expert advice and consultation on launching an NFT through any of the below tools, reach out to the Flowverse team on Discord.

Table of contents

1. Creating Event and Certificate NFTs with FLOAT
2. Creating NFT and Store on Gigantik
3. Creating Brand NFTs and Tokens on 24 Karat
4. Creating an NFT Marketplace with Rarible X
5. Creating NFTs with MINT
6. Creating an NFT with Matrix Market
7. Creating NFTs with Flowverse Launchpad
8. Launch your NFT as a Flow Ordinal

Creating Event and Certificate NFTs with FLOAT

FLOAT allows you to easily create unique NFTs to reward participation in events, online AMAs, hackathons, fundraisers, and more.

Why Use FLOAT?

The best use case for FLOAT is to reward people with a free NFT for doing an action. For example attending a twitter spaces AMA, signing up for a newsletter, attending a discord meeting, winning a gaming competition or completing a course or bootcamp. 

It’s also well tailored for giving away free NFTs to those who attend a conference, hackathon or product presentation. 

Pros:

• It’s FREE to use
• User-friendly, letting you set up your NFT mint page in just a few minutes
• Caters to a diverse range of use cases
• Probably the easiest way to launch a free NFT on Flow
• Great way to reward participation in discord AMAs, twitter spaces or even for something simple like signing up to a newsletter

Cons:

• No way of having different types of NFTs, all have the same design unless you create different FLOAT events
• NFTs are all under the FLOAT smart contract not their own smart contract
• You can sell paid NFTs through FLOAT but the platform seems better suited for the free mint use case
  

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating NFTs on FLOAT

1) Visit FLOAT's website and connect your wallet, if you don’t have one you can create easily in a few minutes

2) Click on the “Create Event” on the upper right of the landing page.

3) Enter the details of your event and upload an image for your event logo.

4) Add an image that represents your event/certificate memorable.

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5) Choose how your audience can claim their FLOAT.

6) Decide if your FLOAT can be traded or not. If you select tradeable, the NFT will be tradeable on Flowverse NFT under the FLOAT collection.

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7) Set whether users can claim multiple FLOATs or just a single claim

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8) Set your Float if you want it to be seen as a certificate or picture only. You might select Certificate if it’s to reward winners or participation in a Hackathon, Bootcamp or certification. You might select Picture if you’re using FLOAT to launch a more general NFT.

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9) You can Add Restrictions or Requirements to you FLOAT such as the following:some text

• Payment: FLOATs can be claimed with $FLOW.
• Timelock: Set a time limit for claiming the FLOAT. This is great for having time bound claim periods.
• Secret Code: Require a code for claiming. This is a useful feature for events where you can drop the link and only people attending get the secret code.
• Supply: Define a maximum number of FLOATs, with the option for airdrops or distribution beyond this limit.
• Min Balance: Set a minimum $FLOW balance a user must have to claim the FLOAT.
• Email: Collect email addresses from users before they claim the FLOAT. Handy for growing email lists!

10) Double-check all your settings and details before launching your event! Once launched, just share the link for people to be able to claim directly. 

FLOAT is a free to use platform, and they’re only charging a small percentage on paid FLOATs on your events.

As of this writing, FLOAT currently has 4,496,607 has been claimed and over 9,777 events have been created.

Creating NFT and Store on Gigantik

Gigantik offers a new and easy way to create NFTs, by providing creators and brands an experience similar to NBA Top Shot. You can learn a lot about their platform in Flowverse’s project spotlight here.

With the goal to simplify NFT creation and management while enhancing user experience for the general audience with its custodial wallet, easy card payments, and a friendly user interface, Gigantik aims to remove the complexities of blockchain technology.

Why Use Gigantik?

Gigantik gives everyone the same powers as the most advanced NFT sale platforms in the world. You can launch pack sales, run challenges and more. It seems best tailored to startups and brands looking to release experiences similar to NBA Top Shot or UFC Strike. 

Pros:

• You can easily customise your shop and digital items that reflect your brand’s identity and personal taste
• The basic platform is free, though a 10% fee is taken from each sale. The Pro plan costs $20/month with a 7% fee on sales
• Simple interface that allows you to create experiences similar to NBA Top Shot
• Accept credit card payments for NFTs by connecting stripe, offering a great user experience for users that aren’t that familiar with NFTs
• Utilise account linking to let users control their NFTs with their non-custodial wallet 
• Enables diverse use cases including both free and paid NFT launches
• Custom secondary marketplace available on Enterprise plan
• Well suited for NFT sales

Cons:

• Free and Pro plan capabilities can be limited. For example advance packs, custom domains and many other advanced features are only available on Enterprise plan. This requires you to contact Gigantik to learn about their pricing
• Requires you to use the Gigantik custodial wallet on free and pro plans though users can use account linking to link this wallet to their non-custodial wallet to gain more control of their NFTs

Gigantik’s Key NFT Features:

• Create NFTs that match real-world items, known as Digital Twins.
• Design NFTs as tickets or special passes for exclusive content and behind-the-scenes access.
• Offer limited edition NFTs like “skill cards” that let fans connect with athletes, influencers or brands.
• Send exclusive digital goodie bags via NFTs with special discounts, NFT pre-launch information, or downloadable content.

Renowned Brands That Have Built on Gigantik:

• YouTube
• NBA
• American Airlines
• Sephora
• AU Pro Sports
• Speedway Motorsports
• UFC
• Dapper Labs
• Bleacher Report
• Atlanta Hawks
  

Steps to Creating an NFT Store on Gigantik

1) Go to Gigantik website and Click on "Get Started"

2) Create an account with your shop name and email (This is FREE of charge)

3) Go to your email and await the verification code.

4) Once the email is verified, input your details on the next tab.

5) Wait for your shop to be created, this usually last a minute.

6) A quick start guide will appear once your shop is created, providing an overview of your shop.

7) Customise your shop’s appearance under the shop settings.

Gigantik makes it incredibly easy to set up your NFT shop and list your work in just minutes, and with the goal of reaching a wide audience with its user-friendly interface.

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Creating Brand NFTs and Tokens on 24 Karat

24 Karat is a Japanese based Web3 loyalty marketing platform for brands. You can learn a lot about their company and efforts in Flowverse’s Global Impact spotlight here.

Why Use 24 Karat?

The 24karat platform empowers brands, projects, and communities to effortlessly create and utilize their own tokens/NFTs, anywhere and in any capacity, to enhance engagement.

Brands of all sizes can use 24karat’s softwares and APIs to issue brand tokens, create branded NFTs, and interact with their communities online and offline. 

The ideal use case seems to be for building gamified brand reward and engagement programs with tokens and NFTs. It also is a solid platform enabling your brand to expand into the Japanese market and sell NFTs across 1000s of vending machines in Japan.

Pros:

• Getting started on their platform is free 
• Mobile application that lets you connect with your audience as digital loyalty touch points
• Simplified process of creating and managing brand tokens and NFTs
• Unique marketing strategy through Japanese vending machines
• Cater to and grow your brand in the Japanese market

Cons:

• Need to be approved by 24Karat to set up your collection 
• Some features only available on paid plan

Renowned Brands That Have Built on 24Karat:

• Sapporo
• Itochu
• Joshin
• Lotte
• Markaware
• tv asahi
  

Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started on 24 Karat

1) Go to 24 Karat’s homepage and click on "Get Started."

2) Select "Connect to 24Karat" to begin the account setup.

3) Provide your email address.
*You can also use your mobile phone, passphrase, or QR code for account creation.

4) Click "Let's Go" to proceed.

5) Check your email for an OTP (one-time password) and enter it to complete the verification process.

6) Select the appropriate plan for your brand. Note that the pricing is in Japanese Yen.

7) Input your brand name, description, and social media links.

8) Wait for your brand to be reviewed. Once approved, you can start creating your brand NFTs and tokens.

9) Currently, you can only edit primary details until further notice from the app.

As of this writing, 24 Karat has:

• 169,285 Wallets Created
• 5,692,475.5 Tokens Issued
• 38,028 NFTs Minted

24 Karat offers a secure but easy to use platform for leveraging Web3 technologies to increase brand’s engagement and loyalty. 

Big Brands from Japan have already used this powerful tool looking to connect with their communities in new and meaningful ways.

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Creating an NFT Marketplace with Rarible X

Rarible X helps brands and creators build their own custom NFT marketplaces. To launch an NFT through Rarible X on Flow, you will need to select the Custom Enterprise plan and contact their team. 

Why Use Rarible X?

Rarible X offers consumer brands and creators a white-label solution for NFT primary sales and secondary marketplaces. 

Pros:

• Trusted by several prominent brands (see below)
• Marketplaces are easy to use for mainstream users
• Comes with primary sales platform and secondary marketplace

Cons:

• Can be pricey for building on certain blockchains like Flow
• Only supports Polygon and Ethereum on their free plan

Partners

Rarible X supports several well-known projects, from crypto-native companies to well-known web2 brands, including:

• Animoca Brands
• Mantle
• Mattel
• McFarlane
• Barbie
• Pixel Vault
• Cryptopunks V1

Known Flow marketplaces built on Rarible X:

• Mattel Digital Collectible Marketplace ($3.7M+ GMV, 215K+ Users, 79K+ transactions)some text
  • Hot Wheels NFT Garage
  • Boss Beauties x Barbie

Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Rarible X

Step 1: Visit the Rarible X Website and click on "Create Marketplace." on the landing page

Step 2: Choose between the free or custom options. 

Note that creating an NFT marketplace on Flow is only available with the custom option.

Step 3: If you choose the custom option to create a marketplace on Flow, you have to fill out the form so the RaribleX team can contact you and guide you through the setup process.

The multiple blockchain integration, friendly UI, and easy payment transaction of Rarible X  makes it a solid choice for brands and creators who want to create their own NFT marketplace to monetize their work in the NFT space. 

Creating NFTs with MINT

What is Mint?

Mint was founded in 2020, originating in Montreal, Canada. It is a platform for creating next-generation digital experiences. 

Why use Mint?

Mint works with renowned and well known brands to harness new technologies such as NFTs to create immersive and engaging experiences. 

On Flow, Mint can be integrated into Shopify to enable easy selling of NFTs through your Shopify store.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Integrates with Shopify for easy selling of NFT
• Trusted by major brands, many clients are in the sports industry

Cons:

• Not much information except the highlighted partners on their website
• Have to get in touch with their team to launch an NFT
• May be pricey if you’re starting out in NFT space

Renowned Partners

• Chicago Bulls
• NBA
• Axiom Space
• Bud Light
• RTL
• Charlotte Hornets
• BSC Young Boys
• Porsche and Misa

Steps to contact Mint to create your NFTs on Flow

1) Visit the Mint Store website and click on "Get in Touch."

2) Fill out the form so the Mint team can contact you and assist with setting up your NFT project.

Creating an NFT with Matrix Market

What is Matrix Market?

Matrix Market is an NFT marketplace designed for creators, collectors, and traders on the Flow blockchain.

Why Use Matrix Market to launch an NFT on Flow?

Matrix offers a seamless experience for users to create individual NFTs and NFT collections on Flow Blockchain. The experience is similar to Opensea’s original create an NFT functionality. 

Pros:

• Create your own NFT collection in under 5 minutes
• No charge when creating NFT

Cons:

• No credit card payments, requires users to have a Flow wallet with FLOW in it to buy NFTs
• Need to list NFTs on secondary marketplace to sell them, no page for primary drops

Steps to Create an NFT on Matrix Market

1) Go to the Matrix Market Website and click on "Create."

2) Connect Your Wallet.

3) Matrix Market is currently integrated with Blocto Wallet.

4) If creating for the first time, you’ll see a prompt; click on "Approve."

5) Upload your NFT details, including name, description, collection, and media file.

6) Wait for Matrix Market to mint your NFT.

7) Approve the transaction to create your NFT (No charge).

8) Once approved, you can view your NFT instantly.

9) After it is listed, you can choose to sell or transfer your NFT.

The cost-free minting process of Matrix Markets makes NFT creation on the Flow blockchain easy with its user-friendly platform and very accessible for creators starting out in the NFT Space. 

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Creating NFTs with Flowverse Launchpad

What is Flowverse Launchpad?

Flowverse NFT Launchpad is a custom solution to launch NFTs on the Flow Blockchain. 

It involves working with the Flowverse team directly to launch your NFTs on Flowverse marketplace. 

The launchpad is bespoke with each project getting a customised launch page hosted at nft.flowverse.co, smart contract, allowlist capability and viral sharing capabilities.

Why Use Flowverse Launchpad?

Flowverse Launchpad provides full NFT experience creation and end-to-end support for NFT launches, from smart contract engineering to community building and full marketing services.

The platform includes primary sales (both free or paid mints) and a secondary marketplace on nft.flowverse.co with guaranteed royalties. 

All launchpad partners will get full marketing through Flowverse’s social media channels and the benefit of Flowverse distribution. Previously this has led to the Flowverse Shirt NFTs sell out in 1 hour and Heroes of the Flow mint out in just 10 minutes.

At the moment, Flowverse Launchpad is paused for working with new partners.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Distribution to Flowverse community
• Viral sharing mechanics
• Everything done by Flowverse - you just need to provide the metadata, art and utility
• Expert advice from Flowverse team
• Advanced Marketing by Leveraging Flowverse’s social media presence to help promote your project
• NFTs automatically trade on Flowverse secondary marketplace following the primary sale

Cons:

• Limited capacity and availability to work with partners to launch collections. Launchpad is currently paused

Steps to Apply to launch an NFT through Flowverse Launchpad

1) Go to the Flowverse NFT Website at nft.flowverse.co.

2) Scroll Down to the "Launch With Flowverse" section and click "Get Started."

3) Fill Out the Form with your project and contact details.

4) Wait for a response from the Flowverse team regarding your acceptance.

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Launch your NFT as a Flow Ordinal

What is Flow Ordinal?

Flow Ordinal Inscriptions is an experiment that enables anyone to directly store images and text on the Flow Blockchain. 

Flow Ordinal Inscriptions are inspired by Bitcoin Ordinals, but the concept has been adapted for the Flow Blockchain ecosystem. Read more about the implementation here.

The main difference between Inscriptions on Flow and standard Flow NFTs is that the content is stored on-chain whereas generally the contents of an NFT is stored off-chain.

Why Use Flow Ordinals?

You can mint your NFTs as Flow Ordinal Inscriptions, and then apply to list it as a collection on Flowverse NFT. Given the mint fee of Flow Ordinals, it is recommended to mint in batches. For example, create 10 NFTs, sell them and then create the next 10. Because they need to be created one by one it is better suited for smaller collections. To sell Flow Ordinals NFTs you first need to mint them and then list them for sale, sharing the link to your user profile where they are listed.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Easily create ordinals in 3 easy steps
• List it as a collection on Flowverse through completing the google form
• Contents is fully On-Chain Storage 
• Interoperable like traditional NFTs with its added metadata conformity

Cons

• Need to mint them one-by-one 
• There is an upfront mint fee to create each Ordinal depending on the size of the image. This can be reduced by using an online tool to reduce the size of images you use to create an Ordinal.

Steps to Create Flow Ordinal Inscriptions on Flowverse

1) Go to the Flowverse NFT Website at nft.flowverse.co.

2) Connect Your Preferred Wallet.

3) Go to the home page and click on "Create A Flow Ordinal".

4) Select Your Inscription Type from Domain, Text, or Image File.

5) 1st option: Upload Your Media File (For Image)

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2nd option: Enter your content as text and choose between (For Text)
Single: Inscribe Content as a whole
Bulk: Inscribe each line as separate Ordinal

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3rd Option: Enter your domain to inscribe on the textbox (For Domain) 

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6) Inscribe Your NFT on the Flow Blockchain, you have to ensure you have enough Flow to complete the transaction.

7) To sell the Ordinals once you have minted them, navigate to your My Collection page and list the Ordinals for sale. You can then share the link to your Profile page to sell your Ordinals.

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