Creating an airdrop

Learn how to build and create airdrops with MintFly

Airdrops are used within MintFly to distribute your digital collectibles or storefronts to a group of people for free, typically as a promotional or marketing strategy. Airdrops can be used to raise awareness of a new project or token, incentivize participation in a community, or reward loyal supporters. Airdrops can be distributed in a variety of ways, such as through social media giveaways or randomly to members of a specific group or community.

Airdrop Creation

Get started with creating an airdrop by clicking the Create button located in the header of the Drop Manager page to launch the sidebar editor.

From here, you will need to add some details, configure the airdrop, and review or attach a smart contract.

Launch the create airdrop editor

Details Tab

You will first need to set up some basic information about your airdrop within the details tab. This includes a title, description, scheduled live date, and distribution type.

Title

Your airdrop title is used as an identifier for your airdrop and should reflect the type of campaign you are running.

Note: The airdrop title will be visible to all recipients of your airdrop

Add a title for your airdrop

Description

Your airdrop description should be a basic description of the purpose of your airdrop or campaign.

Add a description for your airdrop

Scheduled Live Date

You can choose to select a scheduled live date for when you want your airdrop to be automatically distributed.

If you do not select a scheduled live date, you will need to manually activate your airdrop when you wish for it to be sent to your recipients.

Distribution Type

We support email or wallet-to-wallet distribution types for your airdrop.

Email airdrops will deliver one of your created storefronts directly to your recipient's email address, while wallet-to-wallet airdrops will deliver a digital collectible directly to your recipient's wallet address.

Currently, wallet-to-wallet airdrops are only available to MintFly Boost users.

Select airdrop type

Configuration Tab

The configuration tab is used to configure the asset that will be attached and distributed to your recipients via the airdrop.

Select Storefront/Collectible

For email airdrops, you will be required to select the storefront you want to distribute to your recipients. This can be done by clicking the Select Storefront button, opening the selection modal, and choosing which storefront to attach.

Note: You will only be able to select storefronts that have been enabled for airdrops within the storefront settings.

For wallet-to-wallet airdrops, you will need to select a digital collectible instead of a storefront to attach to the airdrop. This can be done by clicking the Select Collectible button.

Adding a storefront to your airdrop

Airdrop Type

The airdrop type will determine how many recipients you wish to receive your airdrop. We support a small airdrop (for up to 5 recipients) or a bulk airdrop (uses contacts from your distribution lists).

Recipients/Distribution List

The users who receive your airdrop are determined by the recipients or distribution list field.

For small airdrops, you will be required to enter up to 5 email addresses or blockchain wallet addresses (depending on the distribution type you selected).

For bulk airdrops, you can select as many distribution lists of contacts as you like to receive your airdrop.

Adding email recipients to your airdrop

Email Content

If you have selected to create an email airdrop, you are able to customise the content of your email message that will be sent out to all your chosen recipients. This includes customising the email from address, email subject, and email body.

You can customise the look and feel of your email airdrop body content through the use of our simple rich text editor with inline styling options.

Designing email content for your airdrop

Custom Email Sender Address

Currently, the option to add an email sender address is limited to MintFly Boost users only. This feature allows users to configure their email address to be sent out from their own custom domain mailbox or email address.

You can set up a custom sender address by following the steps below:

Step 1 - Enter your email address

To get started, enter the email address you wish to appear as the sender email address.

If you have verified this email address before with MintFly, it should be automatically accepted and marked as verified - and you are all done!

Otherwise, we'll need to verify that you own the email address by sending you a verification link once you create or save your airdrop data.

Step 2 - Verify your email address (unverified email addresses only)

Once you create or save your airdrop with a custom sender address attached, we'll send you a verification link to the email you provided us with.

At this point, your airdrop status should indicate the email address is unverified and you will not be able to activate it until you do.

Verify your email address by clicking the verification link in your email inbox.

Note: If you didn't receive a verification email from us, you can click on your airdrop, navigate to the Configuration tab and underneath the Email Content section you will have the option to re-send the verification link.

Step 3 - Email verified

Once you have clicked the link to verify your email address, refresh your page and your airdrop status should now have changed to Ready or Scheduled - and your email address successfully verified.

You only have to verify your email address once, and the next time you try to use it the verification should be detected immediately.

Smart Contract Tab

You can use the airdrop smart contract tab to view the attached smart contract or use the smart contract builder to create your own.

Using the airdrop smart contract builder

Smart Contracts with Email Airdrops

If you have selected an email airdrop, we'll pre-fill the smart contract tab with the data from the smart contract attached to the storefront you have selected to airdrop.

When building your airdrop, simply select the storefront you wish to use and then view the smart contract tab to ensure the contract has been attached correctly.

Smart Contracts with Wallet-to-Wallet Airdrops

If you have selected a wallet-to-wallet airdrop, then no smart contract will exist for your digital collectible and you will need to use our smart contract builder to create one before you can distribute your collectible.

A smart contract is a program or agreement that is stored on the blockchain that determines the logic that will be executed when the contract is interacted with.

Every wallet-to-wallet airdrop needs to have a smart contract attached to it in order to define what will happen when we mint your collectible and airdrop it to your recipients. This smart contract will be deployed publicly on the blockchain and will be invoked when your airdrop is activated.

You can use our embedded smart contract builder to create the smart contract that will be associated with your wallet-to-wallet airdrop.

Field	Description
Contract Owner	The contract owner should be the primary blockchain wallet address that owns the smart contract.
Contract Name	User friendly name for your contract
Contract Description	Description of your smart contract
Mint Type	Determines the type of minting you wish to use for your smart contract (batch or on demand). Batch minting will mint all of your collectibles in bulk at the time of contract deployment. On demand minting will mint your collectibles at the time of claim (MintFly Boost users only).
Network	Determines which blockchain the smart contract will be deployed on and available for
Collectible Type	Determines the type of collectible to be minted and token standard 1 of 1 (ERC-721) - unique 1 of 1 token 1 of Many (ERC-1155) - 1 of many copies of the token
Collectible Quantity	The maximum number of available collectibles
Royalty Fee	Determines what percentage of future sales of the collectible is owed to the contract owner (maximum 10%) This feature is only available to MintFly Boost users and will be transferred to the wallet address provided for the contract owner.