About The Repo

This repo contains an example of minting NFT's on Cardano with PyCardano. In this example we'll also use the flexibility of Cardano's metadata to add extra attributes to our NFT's. The goal could be to create game characters like below.

For this example we'll be minting 5 NFT's. We'll:

1. generate and store the collection in a JSON file (assets.json) - generate_assets.py
2. loop over the JSON file and create NFT's - mint_assets.py

Requirements

Keep in mind we'll be using 2 wallets!

1. your Nami wallet to visualize the assets
2. a (minting engine) wallet which will be used by the script

You can also just use 1 recovery phrase for both wallets, simply re-use the same mnemonic in Nami and in the .env file

• The UZH Nami wallet - link to internal repo here
• A Cardano mnemonic - this can be any 24 word mnemonic generated from Nami or other sources like https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ -> set dropdown to 24 -> copy BIP39 mnemonic. [ONLY DO THIS IN DEV]

Install dependencies

Unix

Git - package to interact with Github and other source control platforms

sudo apt install -y git

Python + pip - Programming language & package manager

sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip

Windows / Mac

Git

With Mac you can use Brew if you are familiar with this. If not, go for the download + install.

https://git-scm.com/downloads

or

brew install git

Python

https://www.python.org/downloads/

or

brew install python3

Check if installed correctly (from terminal / CLI):

git --version
git version

How to Run?

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Godspeed-exe/uzh_minting_nfts

Move into the folder

cd uzh_minting_nfts

Install Python libraries (pyCardano & blockfrost & load_dotenv)

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Copy .env-example to .env

cp .env_example .env

Update .env - only wallet_mnemonic

wallet_mnemonic='your_wallet_mnemonic_here'
your_wallet_address='the_address_of_your_nami_wallet'

Generate some random assets based on the content of all_assets.json

python3 generate_assets.py

Mint the assets to your wallet

python3 mint_assets.py

Possible errors

• Python not installed

1. Install python 3.x for your OS
2. Make sure Python executable is in your PATH - Google: "adding Python to PATH [your OS here]"
3. Restart your terminal to reload PATH variable

• PyCardano / Blockfrost not installed

pip3 install pycardano

• Unfulfilled amount: {'coin': 1659643, 'multi_asset': {}}

This indicates your wallet does not have any ADA available for building the transaction. Make sure you send ADA (ex: 10 ADA) to the address generated in your terminal.

example: Your main minting address: addr_test1q......

NFT details

Our NFT's will have the following attributes:

• type
• health
• speed
• defense
• attack

See example on Cardano Preprod: https://preprod.cexplorer.io/tx/2094d4a9ffd8b8633d73a2c282ba287b89ddf511a5dd478c7ca13c90e7938152/metadata#data