Deploying your NFT Collection

General Info

Once you are happy with the images generated, hit the 'Add Collection to the Blockchain' button, select the chain and fill the requested fields and start the deployment.

You'll be requested at this phase to pay gas fees (not controlled by us) for deploying the smart contract and a small fee (see the pricing page) for supporting the improvements of Flume.

Don't forget: YOU ARE THE OWNER OF THE CONTRACT, Flume is just the tool you use to deploy it.

You will have full control over it, and they will be automatically verified into the Polygon or Ethereum Scan services - we do the hassle for you!

For more info please check the following sections:

Gas FeesVerify your Smart ContractPricing

Lazy Minting

The gas fee is a fee that the creator or the one who made the NFTs must pay in exchange for the computational energy needed to process and validate transactions on the blockchain. So, in other words, to mint NFT artworks, you have to pay a fee to replace the miner’s computing resources on the blockchain.

To overcome the gas fees, we implemented lazy minting. Lazy minting is when an NFT is available ‘off-chain’ or outside the blockchain and is only minted after an NFT sale.

By using lazy minting, the creators don’t have to pay a gas fee upfront for minting their NFTs. In contrast, the gas fee is paid after an NFT work is purchased and transferred ‘on-chain.’

Thus, the responsibility for NFT minting is placed on the buyers, not on the NFT creators.

Flume uses the 'Lazy Minting' to allow the creators to save money, and the general system to save computational power.