Minting through contract

Great, so you're looking for a more advanced and stable way to mint your NFTs. You can do this through etherscan by utilizing the verified contracts (found in the nfts discords) to mint through at drop time.

How To Mint

1) Find the NFT contract etherscan link from the discord it will look similar to this: https://etherscan.io/address/0xf497253c2bb7644ebb99e4d9ecc104ae7a79187a

2) Select the Contract tab to view the contract details:

3) Click on "write contract" and then connect to the web3 integration for your metamask wallet. This is basically the same as logging in on the official websites - but through etherscan instead.

4) Once connected, look for a field named "mint tokens" or "mint sale" - something along those lines. Not all contract will have the same details.

5) In the first box, this is the total transactoin amount. For this specific NFT the price per is 0.07 ETH. If we wanted 1 we would input 0.07 in the first box, if we wanted 2 it would be 0.14 and so on. The amount you want minted multiplied by the price is what this box value requires

The second box is the amount you want minted. If i wanted 1 i would put 1, 2 i would put 2 and so forth.

6) Once you are ready to mint & the sale is live (check their discord for their announcement when it is) you can click write and complete the metamask steps as normal to purchase your NFT.

Tips & Tricks

• You can have the web3 login and the minting fields filled out prior to the sale going live. Once its live just click mint and mint away!

• If you click mint ahead of the time and see an astronomical gas price, this is due to the sale not being live.

• Sometimes contracts go live early, the reason for this is that the contract owners have to push through a "sale live" transaction which can take some time to process or not long enough resulting on contracts going live before the desired time.

Catching a Mint Early

• If you are trying to catch the mint sale live before its announced to snipe a cheaper gas price, you can continually refresh on the etherscan contract home page to see when mint token transactions appear. Usually bots are the first to monitor the contract and mint from it, if you see a whole bunch of them come through you can almost assume the contracts live. I would still be careful of this!

• TheNorthCop has a contract monitor to monitor when the contract is being set to live, you can use this monitor to your advantage to see when the contract may go live soon. More details on this are in the discord.