How to Make and Sell an NFT (Crypto Art Tutorial) - YouTube

hey everybody this is Robert from Kapwing and  this iconic image next to me recently sold for  

six hundred thousand dollars at an online auction  if that comes as a shock then let me be first to  

welcome you to the brave new world of nfts and  crypto art in this tutorial today i'll show  

you everything you need to know to get started  creating your first nft putting it on an online  

marketplace and hopefully making some money from  it let's get started nft stands for non-fungible  

token it's an alienesque term that i don't  like saying aloud but you can think of it as  

a digital certificate of authenticity in real life  classic works of art antiques and other historical  

items are often sold at auctions with a receipt  certifying that they are genuine nfts serve the  

same purpose but for digital items they allow  gifs videos jpegs mp3s and just about any other  

file format to be certified as one of a kind this  technology enables a new kind of ownership for  

digital files that wasn't previously possible so  now that we know a little more about nfts and what  

can be an nft let's go step by step through the  process of creating and listing your first nft for  

sale and you won't need any crypto experience to  do this so there's gonna be four steps today first  

we're gonna set up a new crypto wallet this is  where we'll store the ethereum cryptocurrency that  

is used to pay the fees that are associated with  putting an nft for sale second we're gonna buy a  

little bit of the ethereum cryptocurrency you'll  need this to cover those fees i just mentioned  

third you'll connect your new crypto wallet to  one of the popular nft marketplaces you'll use  

your wallet to authenticate everything you do  to keep us secure and then fourth we'll actually  

go through the process of listing your art and  turning it into an nft okay so we're starting out  

here in the ios app store and i'm on the rainbow  ethereum wallet now there are tons of different  

wallets you can use to buy nfts and to store the  ethereum crypto coin so for this tutorial today  

i'm using rainbow because i find this wallet  to be super simple it's where i got my start  

and i'm still using it to this day but i actually  did a full write-up on how to create your own nft  

over on the point website i'll drop a link to  that down in the description i go over some  

other wallets there so if you're not comfortable  with this one or you want to try something else  

there's definitely a lot of options out there  but we are using rainbow for this tutorial today  

so i've got i've already downloaded this app  so i'm just going to tap open here from the app  

store and i'm going to go right into the wallet  so i just created a new wallet called kapwing  

and it's super simple right here inside the app  um it uses apple pay to cover transactions so  

you can just tap any of these buttons 50, 100,  250 and add ethereum bright into your account  

so i would recommend starting with around 100 if  you are planning to mint and create your own new  

nft now i know that sounds like a lot because  it is but currently there are pretty high  

fees associated with making new nfts that's  something else i go over in that article link in  

description but yeah 100 should be enough to get  you covered uh for your first nft these gas fees  

fluctuate all the time but they have been quite  high lately with a lot of the excitement around  

this technology so you'll want to start out by  buying around a hundred dollars worth of ethereum  

now you can just use apple pay to immediately  cover this and have it sent into your wallet if  

you're on android i'm not entirely sure what  the payment method is but i know there is  

a rainbow wallet available for android and the  standard payment methods you'd use in android  

should apply there as well so start here in the  rainbow wallet and add some ethereum into your  

account now that your crypto wallet is all set up  we are ready to actually link it to one of the nft  

marketplaces where you can buy sell and create  your own nfts so for this demo today i'm going  

to show you how to do this on wearable.com this  is one of the most accessible nfc marketplaces  

there's no invite required and it's very easy to  get started this is where i created my first nft  

so we'll head over to wearable.com  i'll drop a link in the description  

and once you're on this main page you'll just  click this connect button up in the corner  

it'll take you to this screen where you have a  bunch of different wallet connections you'll see  

here there's like fortmatic, walletconnect, wallet  link so these are all different apps that connect  

different crypto wallets to their marketplace if  you're using the rainbow wallet that i suggested  

in the first step then we're going to use  walletconnect but if you're using a different  

wallet you may need to further explore  which one of these options is best for you  

so i'll start by clicking wallet connect here and  it's going to bring up this qr code so i will just  

go into my rainbow app and i'll slide over to this  screen that shows the camera and i'll just go over  

that qr code and there it says Rarible wants  to connect your wallet so i'll just tap connect  

and you'll see here right as i tap connect i'm now  logged in to my Rarible account it's automatically  

created an account that's linked to my wallet only  so from here we can actually move on and start to  

buy or create our first nft so for the part we've  all been waiting for how to actually turn a piece  

of content into an nft so i'm here in the Kapwing  studio editor and i'm on an image that i actually  

made for the nft article i recently wrote so this  is a pretty simple project it's a couple image  

layers some text a nice gradient in the background  uh Kapwing is actually a great option for creating  

nfts because it enables you to simply create all  kinds of content whether it be an image like this  

one a gif a video all kinds of content that can  be turned into nfts can be made in Kapwing so  

definitely go check us out link in description as  well so i have this nft graphic that i made for my  

article and i want to download this now and take  it over to wearable and mint it as my first nft so  

my first nft will quite literally be my graphic of  an nft so i'll click export image here in kapwing  

and that takes me to the screen where i can now  download my content so i'll click download and  

now i've got a copy of this image saved to my hard  drive so we'll switch back over to Rarible now and  

once you're signed in you should see this create  button up here in the corner so i'm going to click  

create and now we have a selection to make do  i want to meant this nft as one of one like  

the only version of this image that's available  on the blockchain that can be bought and sold  

or do i want to meet a few copies of it maybe  it's one of ten maybe it's one of seventy so  

for the sake of rarity and you know making this a  true one of one i'm just gonna select single here  

now this next page is very similar to you know the  upload screens you've seen in other apps it's it's  

very familiar it's kind of reminds me of uploading  a video on youtube so i'll just click here to  

upload my file let me find it there it is select  it and upload it and then it kind of shows you  

a thumbnail of it here and then you can start to  make some other selections you can you know choose  

whether or not you want to put it on sale or just  create it as an nft to keep in your own crypto  

wallet so i'm going to put it on sale i can set an  instant sale price you can kind of think of this  

as like a buy now price that you'd see on ebay  this is the price that uh i'd want for somebody  

to immediately be able to purchase it if i don't  select that then it does just go to a regular  

auction where people make bids and i can choose  to accept them or not and then you could also if  

you've created a really rich piece of content do  this unlock when purchased option and that allows  

you to link to maybe like a website or a dropbox  or something where people can download like a high  

quality version of the file or get some other  you know special extras that come with the nft  

maybe like a video of you creating it or you  know some more background around how it was made  

and those are kind of nice little extras to  bundle in so i don't have any of those to offer  

so i'm just gonna go in and it'll ask you  know put a name put a description so i'll say  

nft token and for the description i'll say  what i imagine an nft looks like then you'll  

see down here this royalties selection this is  actually really cool so you can set a royalty  

amount and then anytime this nft is sold in the  future to someone else you will actually receive  

this percentage of a royalty of that sale this is  one of the things that makes nfts really special  

for creators is that they can continue profiting  off their work well after they've sold it for the  

first time something that you know doesn't  really happen in the traditional art world  

so usually you see royalties of around 10 to  30 percent so i'll set this around 20 percent  

and now that i have all of my information  entered here i'll just click create item

and then next it's actually going to send a  request to my uh rainbow wallet to accept this  

transaction so if i go into rainbow here and i  scroll over you'll see here it is it's got the  

um transaction request to go ahead and create this  nft i haven't bought any ethereum so it says that  

my balance is too low and then you can see down  here at the bottom of the screen you have the  

network feed that's going to be associated with  actually going and you know minting this nft today  

so um yeah you'll just complete the transaction  right here in your wallet and then back on screen  

it'll actually uh you know start to do  the rest of the process of minting it  

so once you've actually minted your content and  paid for all the fees this is what it's going  

to look like you'll see it right here on Rarible  it's got a full transaction history you can view  

bids that are placed on it and it's now live  and you were able to do it in just a few minutes  

and that's how you create your first nft  we started by making a new crypto wallet  

next we bought some ethereum and then we linked  our wallet to an nft marketplace like Rarirble.com  

finally we uploaded our content and minted  it into an nft now there's a lot more that  

can be said about crypto art and nfts  but i'm going to leave it there for now  

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nfts are still in their infancy and i think  there's a lot more tutorials that we could  

do on them in the future so getting your feedback  and hearing whether or not this stuff is helpful  

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