Create contract

This guide explains how you can create a smart contract for your NFT collection on the blockchain.

What is an NFT Contract?

An NFT contract is essentially a smart contract designed to handle NFTs on a blockchain. It governs how the NFTs are created, transferred, and interacted with. This contract holds all the necessary logic and data structures for minting new NFTs and managing their ownership.

The creation of an NFT contract is the deployment of a new smart contract on a specific blockchain. The concept of a contract can be considered as the creation of an NFT collection.

Let's start by defining your first contract. This contract will represent a collection for the NFTs. We will create a contract on the Polygon (MATIC) testnet chain.

Request Endpoint: reference

 POST /api/v2/contracts/deployments

Request Body:

Parameter	Description	Type	Required
`name`	The name of your NFT collection/contract	String	✅
`description`	The description of your NFT collection/contract	String	✅
`image`	The image URL for your NFT collection/contract that will be displayed	String	✅
`chain`	This is the blockchain on which you want to create the contract on	String	✅
`externalUrl`	This can be any link such as a link to your website, landing page, etc.	String	✅

{
  "name": "My first collection",
  "description": "Sample description",
  "image": "https://img.freepik.com/free-vector/nft-non-fungible-token-concept-with-neon-light-effect_1017-36944.jpg",
  "chain": "MATIC",
  "externalUrl": "www.venly.io"
}

Response Body:

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Save the result.id from the response body. This is the deployment ID and it is used to check the status of the contract creation request.

The transactionHash that is returned is the transction that created the contract on-chain.

The status attribute indicates if the transaction has been mined yet.

{
    "success": true,
    "result": {
        "name": "My first collection",
        "description": "Sample description",
        "id": "4e38e929-fcbc-4a14-a801-4e768f5a1e76",
        "secretType": "MATIC",
        "symbol": "MYFICO",
        "externalUrl": "www.venly.io",
        "image": "https://img.freepik.com/free-vector/nft-non-fungible-token-concept-with-neon-light-effect_1017-36944.jpg",
        "media": [],
        "transactionHash": "0xe87906003cecfa933dcdf8d9679fa6cf7f8013ea248e818d4c15cd28fa684e32",
        "status": "PENDING",
        "storage": {
            "type": "cloud",
            "location": "https://metadata-staging.arkane.network/metadata/contracts/64260"
        },
        "contractUri": "https://metadata-staging.arkane.network/metadata/contracts/64260",
        "external_link": "www.venly.io"
    }
}

Updated about 1 month ago

What’s Next

For more information on the metadata of an NFT contract please read Collection Info.

Collection Info