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Mint your first jetton

Welcome, dev! It's great to have you here. ๐Ÿ‘‹

You'll learn how to create your first token on TON using TON Minter. To mint a token, we will use the TON Minter.

๐Ÿ“– What you'll learnโ€‹

By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to:

  • deploy a token using TON Minter
  • customize your token
  • manage and use the token
  • edit token parameters

๐Ÿ“Œ Prepare before you startโ€‹

Before you start, make sure you have the following:

  1. A Tonhub / Tonkeeper wallet or any other TON-compatible wallet. At least 0.25 Toncoin in your wallet (plus extra for blockchain fees)
Starter tip

~0.5 TON should be enough for this tutorial.

๐Ÿš€ Let's get started!โ€‹

Use your web browser to open the service TON Minter / TON Minter testnet.

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Deploy a jetton using your browserโ€‹

Connect walletโ€‹

Open TON Minter or TON Minter testnet in your web browser. Click "Connect Wallet" and link your Tonhub or another supported wallet.

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Scan the QR-code in a Mobile wallet (Tonhub e.g.)

Fill in the blanks with relevant informationโ€‹

  1. Name (usually 1-3 words).
  2. Symbol (usually 3-5 uppercase characters).
  3. Amount (for example, 1,000,000).
  4. Description of the token (optional).

Token logo URL (optional)โ€‹

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If you want your token to stand out, youโ€™ll need to host an attractive logo online.

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You can easily find out about the URL placement of the logo in the repository in the 'Where is this metadata stored' paragraph.

  • On-chain.
  • Off-chain IPFS.
  • Off-chain website.

How to create your logo URL?โ€‹

  1. Prepare a 256x256 PNG image of the token logo with a transparent background.
  2. Host it online using, for example, GitHub Pages.
  3. Create a new public repository with the name website.
  4. Upload your prepared image to git and enable GitHub Pages.
    1. Add GitHub Pages to your repository.
    2. Upload your image and get a link.
  5. If possible, purchase a custom domain for your project. Use any domain seller like Google Domains or GoDaddy. Then, connect your custom domain to the repository in the previous step, you can follow the instructions here.
  6. If you have a custom domain, your image URL should be https://bitcoincash.org/logo.png instead of the github.io one. This prevents dependency on GitHub and gives you full control over hosting.

๐Ÿ’ธ Send jettonsโ€‹

On the right side of the screen, you can send tokens to multi-currency wallets such as Tonkeeper or Tonhub.

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You also can burn your tokens to reduce their amount.

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๐Ÿ“ฑ Send tokens from your phone using Tonkeeperโ€‹

Prerequisites:

  1. You must have Jettons in your wallet.
  2. You need at least 0.1 Toncoin to cover transaction fees.

Step-by-step guideโ€‹

Then, go to your token, set the amount to send, and enter the recipient address.

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๐Ÿ“š Using the token on the siteโ€‹

You can manage your token by entering its address in the search bar at the top of the TON Minter site.

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The address can be found on the right side if you are already in the owner panel, or you can find the token address when receiving an airdrop.

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โœ๏ธ Jetton (token) customizationโ€‹

With the FunC language, you can change a token's behavior in your favor.

To make any changes, start here:

Step-by-step guide for developersโ€‹

  1. Ensure you have all dependencies from the tonstarter-contracts repository.
  2. Clone the minter-contract repository and rename the project.
  3. To install, open a terminal at the root and run:
npm install

  1. Edit the smart contract files. All contract files are in contracts/*.fc

  2. Build a project by using:

npm run build

The result will describe the process of creating the necessary files and the search for smart contracts.

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Read the console, there are a lot of tips!

  1. You can test your changes using:
npm run test
  1. Edit the name and other metadata of the token in build/jetton-minter.deploy.ts by changing the JettonParams object.
// This is example data - Modify these parameters for your jetton!
// - Data is stored on-chain (except for the image data itself)
// - Owner should usually be the deploying wallet's address.
  
const jettonParams = {
 owner: Address.parse("EQD4gS-Nj2Gjr2FYtg-s3fXUvjzKbzHGZ5_1Xe_V0-GCp0p2"),
 name: "MyJetton",
 symbol: "JET1",
 image: "https://www.linkpicture.com/q/download_183.png", // Image URL
 description: "My jetton",
};
  1. To deploy a token, use the following command:
npm run deploy

The result of running your project:

> @ton-defi.org/jetton-deployer-contracts@0.0.2 deploy
> ts-node ./build/_deploy.ts

=================================================================
Deploy script running, let's find some contracts to deploy..

- We are working with 'mainnet'

- Config file '.env' found and will be used for deployment!
 - Wallet address used to deploy from is: YOUR-ADDRESS
 - Wallet balance is YOUR-BALANCE TON, which will be used for gas

- Found root contract 'build/jetton-minter.deploy.ts - let's deploy it':
 - Based on your init code+data, your new contract address is: YOUR-ADDRESS
 - Let's deploy the contract on-chain.
 - Deploy transaction sent successfully
 - Block explorer link: https://tonwhales.com/explorer/address/YOUR-ADDRESS
 - Waiting up to 20 seconds to check if the contract was actually deployed.
 - SUCCESS! Contract deployed successfully to address: YOUR-ADDRESS
 - New contract balance is now YOUR-BALANCE TON, make sure it has enough to pay rent
 - Running a post deployment test:
{
  name: 'MyJetton',
  description: 'My jetton',
  image: 'https://www.linkpicture.com/q/download_183.png',
  symbol: 'JET1'
}

What's next?โ€‹

If you want to dive deeper, read this article by Tal Kol:

If you want to learn more about other token-minting solutions, read this article:

Referencesโ€‹

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