I was wondering how to mint an NFT with Metaplex without doing MasterEdition. I want to do a simple edit with a supply of 1.
But in the Metaplex program, you have to call "CreateMasterEdition" and give the MaxSupply. And then call "MintNewEditionFromMasterEdition". However, when I go to Solsea for example and I mint an NFT, I don't have a master edition, but a simple edition.
Is it possible to mint a single edition directly? Do marketplaces, such as Solsea, mint a master edition, then create an edition from it and keep or burn the MasterEdition? I would like to understand.
OK, according to the Metaplex documentation to make a "single" edition, I must create a MasterEdition with a supply of 0.
The existence of Metadata and its sister PDA MasterEdition makes a very powerful combination for a mint that enables the entire rest of the Metaplex contract stack. Now you can create:
- Normal mints that just have names (Metadata but no MasterEdition)
- One of a kind NFTs (Metadata + MasterEdition with max_supply of 0)
- NFTs that can print limited edition child NFTs (Metadata + MasterEdition with max_supply of say 10)
- NFTs that can print unlimited open edition NFTs (Metadata + MasterEdition with unlimited max_supply)