How to Mint Assets (NFTS & TOKENS) With Avian Core Wallet? Step by Step Guide

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What is avian core wallet? Avian core wallet, is Avian network blockchains primary wallet. Its used for running a node, minting assets and verifying the blockchain. Core wallet, is safest and most reliable wallet as it doesn’t relay on any infrastructure, APIs or endpoints, its functionality can’t be turned off, as its directly connected to the network. Its direct client in the network and contains all of the rules of the network, making it have all of the latest features.

Core wallet can be downloaded at: https://github.com/AvianNetwork/Avian/releases

Drawbacks of using core wallet are that it requires long initial time to load in, as it has to sync and verify the entire blockchain history to load balances, it doesn’t trust, it verifies! After the initial load, opening again will take much less time, as wallet loads history from its cache, and continues where it left off, loading just previous history which takes much less time. There are other more practical ways of minting assets, such as using electrum wallet which doesn’t load entire history, or using the aivan emporium marketplace.

Guide for minting using emporium marketplace could be found here:

https://medium.com/@avianfoundation/how-to-easily-mint-nfts-on-avian-network-7c67d7457afb

if you are interested in knowing more about the assets, you can read short blog about them here:

https://medium.com/@avianfoundation/what-are-assets-on-the-avian-network-simply-explained-for-everyone-56c0e8872c68

Still want to use the core? Lets jump into the step by step guide

How to issue assets? It takes just couple of clicks!

Step 1 After opening the core wallet by opening the avian-qt, you will be greeted with the following: image Await for wallet to load.

Step 2 image on initial opening wallet would have to sync to the network

Optional: You may need to add more nodes to sync faster to the network, nodes can be found by going to: https://explorer.avn.network/network/ image go to https://explorer.avn.network/network/ and click show addnode list

image Window like this will pop up, where you can find ips to use with commands later on

image Navigate to the help section of the core wallet, and click on debug window

image Navigate to the console section

image In the debug window console section use the following command

image if node is added successfully a message like this would appear

Now await for the wallet to fully sync

Step 3

Make sure to have enough AVN to mint assets, you can get Avian AVN on following exchanges:

https://xeggex.com/market/AVN_USDT

https://tradeogre.com/exchange/USDT-AVN

https://trade.exbitron.com/trade?market=avn-usdt

Step 4 image navigate to the asset minting section

Step 5 image choose your asset type (you need to have main asset to issue sub assets, unique assets and messaging channel assets)

Here are the costs and rules of minting assets:

*main asset: Cost 500 AVN

sub asset: Cost 100 AVN (You need to mint under a main asset)

unique asset (NFT): Cost 5 AVN (You need to mint them under a main or a sub asset owned)

message assets: cost 100 AVN*

Step 6 image choose your unique name for asset

Step 7 image check if the name is available

Step 8 image choose your quantity (amount) of the asset you are issuing, choose the re issuable state of an asset (if you wish to edit properties later, click reissuable to be ticked)

Step 9 If you wish your asset to have an image, or additional attributes attached, you would wanna use add IPFS hash option.

To learn more what IPFS is, and how to get the hash needed you can check the 3 minute explanation in the blog here: https://medium.com/@avianfoundation/what-is-an-ipfs-hash-that-could-be-included-when-minting-assets-on-the-avian-network-32a2ec9f0013?source=post_page-----74aefb276616--------------------------------

Step 10 (final) image Click create asset and your asset will be deployed to the network!

image it will ask you to confirm the transaction

Ones the asset is deployed onto the network, you will receive 2 new things in the wallet

image it will look like this on the home page

  1. Main asset (what you wanna send out and use)
  2. Administrator asset (what you wanna keep, as its required when reissuing and minting more assets under the name of the main one)

Way to differentiate between the main asset and administrator asset is that administrator asset always has ! at the end of its name, whilst main asset just has the name we previously choose. image After the asset has been minted and enough confirmations are on the network it will appear in asset balances image Use right click to manage your assets! Happy minting