Want to be like the cool kids? You gotta mint from contract. The page below will explain the benefits of minting from contract, and how to not get Rekt.
ALWAYS USE A BURNER WALLET WHEN MINTING FROM CONTRACT OR YOU’LL GET REKT!
Why mint from contract?
Websites can be DDOSed (unresponsive due to bots), or simply crash due to an overload of users. The mint contract is always live before the mint is available on the website.
Because you are minting before everyone else, you can usually have a little runway time that enables you to pay a little less gas fees (less competition for the mint). 3) ‘’Saferish’’.
Some website have malicious wallet connect features, when you mint from contract you interact with the ‘’mint feature’’ only. Also, you don’t need to approve the connection to the website signature. The contract can still be malicious, but I always felt safer minting from contract for some reason.
How to mint from contract?
1) You need to find the contract!
You get the contract from a reputable source : project’s Discord (hopefully not hacked), project’s Twitter (hopefully not hacked), OpenSea and Etherscan:
Contract from the NFT collection on Opensea
Again has to be a reputable link. You will find the information in details as pictured below. You can click on Contract Address directly.
Finding contracts on Etherscan
You’ll see all the transactions happening on Ethereum, and when you see in Method ‘’Mint’’. That means it’s a mint.
You can even click on the transaction hash, and see what they are minting. Hence, you can find the contract that way. Do understand this method tells you EVERYTHING that is being minted, and we don’t recommend you mint a random NFT you found on Etherscan.