01What
Creates a new NFT owned by your account, with a link to its content, a collection number, and optional royalty settings.
02Why you'd use it
Minting is how anything becomes an NFT: artwork, event tickets, membership passes, or certificates. On XRPL it is one cheap transaction — no contract deployment.
03How
- 1Put the link to your content (usually ipfs://... so it cannot quietly change) in Token URI.
- 2Set Taxon — a collection number you choose; use the same taxon for every NFT in one collection (0 is fine for a first mint).
- 3Set Transfer Fee for royalties in units of 0.001%: 5000 = 5% of every future resale, up to 50000 = 50%. Zero means no royalty.
- 4Choose Flags: transferable lets it be resold (required for royalties); burnable lets you as issuer destroy it later; only-xrp restricts sales to XRP.
- 5Submit, confirm tesSUCCESS, then find the new NFTokenID with Account NFTs.
Watch out
- The ledger stores the link, not the image. If the file is on a normal web server that goes down, the NFT points at nothing — prefer IPFS or another content-addressed store.
- Without the transferable flag, the NFT can only ever move back to you (the issuer) — no resales.
- Royalties only apply when a transfer fee was set at mint; you cannot add one later. Nothing about an NFT can be edited after minting — only burned.
- NFTs are stored in pages of up to 32; each page locks 0.2 XRP of owner reserve.
For example
A photographer mints a limited series of 50 photos, all with taxon 1, each with a 5% transfer fee. Every future resale on the ledger automatically pays her 5% — no lawyer, no marketplace contract.