Knowledge Base
  • 👨‍🎨For creators
    • 👋Intro to creating with Highlight
    • 📜Project quick start guides
      • Launch an open edition
      • Launch a delayed reveal collection
      • Launch a 1-of-1 auction
      • Launch a generative artwork
      • Launch an open edition generative artwork
      • Launch a PFP project
      • Launch a generative, image-based PFP project
      • Launch a ranked auction
      • Launch an onchain project
      • Launch a collector's choice project
      • Ongoing drops with the same contract
    • 🎇Learn the creation flows
      • ERC-721 vs. ERC-1155 Token Standards
      • Edition flow
      • Generative flow
      • Series flow
      • The importance of testing your collections
    • 👩‍💻Use embeds to build custom mint sites
      • Case Study: How Superchain Chiblings launched a fully custom website on Highlight x Base
      • Running a collector's choice mint via embeds
    • 💸Selling your NFTs
      • Available sale methods
        • Ranked auction
        • Dutch auction
        • English auction
      • Setting up gates (allowlists)
      • Combining sale methods
      • Configuring payment currencies
        • Accepting ERC20 payments
        • Accepting credit card payments
      • Payouts, royalties & splits
      • Livestream on the mint page
    • 🛠️Managing your collections
      • Hiding a collection
      • Mint creator reserves
      • Airdropping tokens
      • Updating collection metadata
      • Getting verified
      • Sponsored mints
      • Reducing collection size
    • 🔮Generative & onchain art tools
      • Highlight Studio
      • Onchain file system
      • Storing SVGs onchain
      • Downloading token metadata
      • How onchain is Highlight?
    • 🌐Integrations & ecosystem
      • Farcaster
      • Paragraph.xyz
      • Foundation Worlds
        • Importing a collection to Worlds
        • Foundation × Highlight FAQs
      • Export generative art from Cables.gl
      • Highlight on mobile
    • 🤓Advanced
      • Reusing contracts
      • Randomization algorithm
      • Upload asset specifications
      • Fulfilling auctions for non-transferable tokens
    • ✨About Highlight
      • Artwork policies
      • Highlight fees
  • For Collectors
    • 💳Buying
      • Buying on secondary
      • Exchange currency across chains
  • 💲Selling
    • Selling on secondary
    • Instantly sell & relist NFTs
  • 🔔Notifications
  • For developers
    • Intro to the Highlight Protocol
    • NFT contracts
      • Official addresses
      • ERC721GeneralSequence
      • ERC721General
      • ERC721EditionsDFS
      • ERC721SingleEditionDFS
      • ERC721GenerativeOnchain
      • Deprecated contracts
    • Custom metadata renderers
      • Example custom renderers
    • Minting protocol
      • Mint Managers
      • Mint Mechanics
        • Dutch auction mechanic
        • Ranked auction mechanic
        • Verisart mechanic
        • Seed-based mechanic
        • Auction Manager *
      • Referral Manager
    • Management modules
      • TokenManager
      • RoyaltyManager
    • Observability
    • Onchain File Storage
    • Mint fee oracle
    • Protocol rewards
      • Creator rewards
      • Mint referral rewards
    • Crosschain burn / redeem
  • Official links
    • ✨Highlight website
    • 🟣Highlight Farcaster
    • 🐦Highlight Twitter
    • 👋About us
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  • Simple creation flows for any kind of NFT project
  • All the configuration options you'll ever need
  • Contracts owned by you
  • Free to use
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  1. For creators

Intro to creating with Highlight

A high-level overview of how to get started creating NFTs on Highlight

Simple creation flows for any kind of NFT project

Highlight makes launching virtually any kind of NFT project simple, painless and free. Creators can use one of our simple creation flows to set up and deploy a project in minutes. These flows support the creation of projects ranging in complexity from the super simple (like a free, open edition with a single JPEG artwork) to the extremely complex (like a fully onchain project whose artwork is composed of tiny images of other NFT artwork—a real project launched on Highlight called Bit Rot that we’ll explain further along).

Highlight is also the premiere place to launch generative artwork, which have special requirements that are uniquely supported by our platform. This includes functionality like dynamically taking snapshots of generated artwork and metadata post-mint. This kind of infrastructure is difficult and costly to create yourself.

All the configuration options you'll ever need

These flows are simple, step-by-step walkthroughs that let you easily select from a variety of different options to customize your project.

  • Uploading any kind of artwork, whether it’s a single image, a series of videos, GIFs, music files, dynamic generative art code—virtually any file type will work.

  • Set basic details like the collection name and description, desired launch date and time frame, and any relevant traits.

  • Select a blockchain. See the full list of supported chains here.

  • Choose a sale type (or combine several). Options include Dutch auctions, English auctions, ranked auctions, fixed price sales, free, etc. These sale types can be combined in creative ways.

  • Choose purchase requirements and allowlists. This allows you to specify who can buy your project, e.g. by adding an allowlist or specifying holders of specific tokens.

  • Set royalty settings. Setting these will set your desired royalty amount on secondary sales across all marketplaces respecting royalties.

Contracts owned by you

Under the hood, each of these flows produces a modular, flexible set of smart contracts that are completely configurable, platform-independent, and entirely artist-owned.

Free to use

Launching a project on Highlight is completely free and only requires the gas costs of deploying your collection. Highlight simply charges a small mint fee to collectors on each transaction. See Highlight fees for more information.

What to read next?

  • Get some inspiration and see what kinds of projects can be launched on Highlight by reviewing Project quick start guides

  • For a closer look at the creation flows and all the available options, take a look at Learn the creation flows

  • To learn about all the available sales options, including the various auction types, review Selling your NFTs

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