Community Guides

A collection of articles/projects from the Metaplex Community

General

• Solana and Metaplex FAQ
• KeyStrokes - Setup Phantom and CLI wallets for Solana Development, with funding

Storefronts

• Setting up a Solana Metaplex NFT Storefront in the Cloud

Awesome Solana NFTs

• A curated list of Solana NFT protocols, repos & community tools

NFT Transfer and Airdrops

• Guide to Airdrop Using Metaplex
• SkeletonCrew's Air Support

NFT Viewing

• Steps for Metaplex NFT Display

Token Metadata

• Mint NFTs on Solana Using Rust and Metaplex Token Metadata
• How NFTs are represented in Solana

Candy Machine

• MintUI - cmv3-v2/sugar 2.1.1 How to/starter project to mint using umi for collection deployed with sugar 2.1.1 (Candy Machine V3 Account V2)
• MintUI - An extensible UI for creating Metaplex Candy Machines
• TreatToolbox - Generative art manager for the non-technical
• Metaplex Candy Machine Missing Guide
• Ultimate Metaplex Candy Machine guide on Solana
• Hash Table tool for listing your Candy Machine NFT Collection on secondary marketplaces
• Candy Machine V2 Guide
• HashLips for creating generative art
• Candy Machine v2. Mint solana UI for free and quick creation of a mint page
• Candy Machine v2 Guide with Credit Card Support
• KeyStrokes - Metaplex CandyMachine V3 - Launch a Solana NFT Collection on Windows
• KeyStrokes - Metaplex CandyMachine V3 - Wallet Based Whitelist Mint - OG, WL, Public
• KeyStrokes - Metaplex CandyMachine V3 - Create Solana NFT Collection (With Sugar)
• KeyStrokes - Metaplex CandyMachine V2 - Launch Simple Solana NFT Collection
• KeyStrokes - Metaplex CandyMachine V2 - Windows Edition! Launch Simple Solana NFT Collection
• KeyStrokes - Metaplex CandyMachine V2 - Whitelist and Public Mint
• KeyStrokes - Metaplex CandyMachine V2 - Mint with Reveal
• KeyStrokes - Sugar - Launch Simple Solana NFT Collection

Fair Launch

• Fair-Launch Protocol Meeting Minutes
• Zoom Meeting hook up by @redacted_j (pwd=ep?a38$F)
• Fair Launch Lottery Overview

Gumdrop

• Gumdrop Notes/Guide

Common Issues from the Community

• Getting error "Auction manager must be validated to start auction!" How do I become validated? modify js/packages/web/src/config/userNames.json to add your wallet address to your storefront as an admin

Caches

• https://github.com/zubr-exchange/cacherpc
• https://github.com/Monadical-SAS/rpc-cache-server

Other

• Zero-to-Solana First Metaplex