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Public collection: the owner of each item, and every transfer, is visible on chain.

Shielded collection: owners and transfers are private. Prices are public; who paid them is not. If you hold a shielded item, only your connected wallet can show it to you, and owner counts are not available.

A collection is public or shielded for good. Its creator chooses once, when it is created.

Prices are in US dollars and settle on chain in USDM, a dollar stablecoin on Midnight. A price of $12.50 costs 12.50 USDM.

USDM is an unshielded token: it can only be held at a public (unshielded) address. It comes from Cardano over the bridge, and takes about 50 minutes to arrive. The Cardano side of the crossing is paid for in ADA.

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Platform fee on a sale

1% of the price

Platform fee on a paid mint

5%, from the creator's proceeds

Platform fee on a free mint

None

Creator royalty on a sale

0 to 10%, set by the creator

Network fee

Separate, paid in DUST

On a sale, the platform fee and the creator royalty come out of the price and the seller receives the rest. On a mint, the minter pays the mint price; the platform fee comes out of what the creator receives.

DUST pays the network fee on every transaction: buying, minting, listing and cancelling. You do not buy DUST. A wallet that holds NIGHT generates it over time, up to a cap that depends on how much NIGHT it holds, and it fills back up after you spend some. A wallet that has only just received NIGHT starts with no DUST; building it up can take around half a day.

Blind mint: you get a random item that nobody has yet, and see it when it arrives. Everyone has the same odds at the rare ones.

Pick your item: every item is on show from the start, and you mint the exact one you pick, at the mint price.

Allowlist: a phase in which only the wallets on a list can mint, before everyone else, at its own price and limit. One phase can list up to 16,384 wallets. A public collection lists public addresses and a shielded collection lists shielded ones.

Per-wallet limit: a phase can cap how many items one wallet mints.

Listing: a listed item is held by the market contract until it sells, is cancelled or expires. A listing made here lasts 30 days.

Cancelling: connect the wallet that listed the item and sign the message it shows. That works from any browser; nothing else is needed.

Midnight Station can take a listing down as well. Whichever way a listing ends without a sale, the item goes back to the address its seller chose when listing. Nobody, Midnight Station included, can send it anywhere else.

Creating a collection puts one extra token in the creator's wallet: its collection key. Whoever holds the key controls the collection, including its mint settings, its allowlist and its proceeds. There is no other owner record.

Sending the key to another wallet hands the collection over. The key is listed under Your collections in My NFTs.

The Studio creates a collection and opens its mint without code, in four steps: art, details, mint settings, review. Nothing is created until you confirm in your wallet.

Template: mix Humans, Androids and Aliens, choose which parts to include and how rare each one is, and the Studio draws every item. Your layers: upload your own trait layers and the Studio stacks them into unique items. Finished art: upload finished images with their metadata.

You need a Midnight wallet to hold NFTs and pay in USDM. 1AM is a Midnight wallet for desktop browsers and phones. On a phone, open this site in the wallet's built-in browser.

A connected wallet lets this site read your addresses and balances. Every payment still needs your approval in the wallet.