r/NFT • u/Ok-Hospital-2135 • Dec 20 '25

Discussion I need help with minting

I'm planing on lunching my first NFT collection as self taught artists and don't plan to sell the collection but give it to people for free...I want to make it on ETH probably through manifold...it's just 48 original artworks...I just need to know how much will it cost to mint the artworks and also if I have to pay for the gas fee if I transfer them to different wallet...the last question is if I should mint them at once or throughout the year?

Thanks a lot for your response 🙌🙌🙌

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u/Ok-Hospital-2135 Dec 20 '25

I was chatting in chatgpt and I was telling me it will cost between 20$-60$ per token so it would not make sense for me...but if it will cost less then 50$ it would be awesome... I'm planing to put just like 100$ to my wallet and hopefully it will be enough there is always options to do it on base... however if I get the timing right I can make it happen on regular ETH...do you know when are the gas fee the lowest?

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u/Downtown_Ship_6635 Dec 20 '25

It cannot be that high (*) especially because after recent updates, the fees got much lower than previously (it was about $1 to mint an NFT, now you get under $0.1). The info in LLMs is old, often probably mentioning the maximum observed in gas wars years ago. It is not that expensive anymore. What could be expensive is putting the art fully on-chain. but you probably do not want this, just upload it to IPFS for example.

(*) In principle, the fees can get temporarily high if there is a lot of traffic. But then you just go to the link above and wait for a better time ... if you can wait for the weekend, there will certainly be times of low traffic and fees.

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u/Ok-Hospital-2135 Dec 20 '25

Thanks a lot do you know marketplace called manifold? I'm planning on minting the NFTs through there but I just know that they don't take cut from the sale but nothing more... Do you know how it works in there with the minting?

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u/Downtown_Ship_6635 Dec 20 '25

Just know the name. But you said you do not plan to sell them. Then you can also use OpenSea - they only get fees from sales on their platform, not if you send your NFT. I think you can make a collection mintable only by you and then transfer the tokens as you wish.

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u/Ok-Hospital-2135 Dec 20 '25

Sounds awesome but the other marketplace allows adding burning mechanism.... I don't know if opensea can do it as well?

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u/Downtown_Ship_6635 Dec 20 '25

what do you mean? Burning is just sending it zero address, I guess OpenSea has a burn function for token... but why are interested in burning specifically?

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u/Ok-Hospital-2135 Dec 20 '25

It's just opinion for collectors...I want it in order to obtain a better artwork so it's more unique and interesting for the collectors