Mint ARC-20

Before you start

• Supported networks: mainnet.
• Status: protocol behavior. Universe products expose decentralised mint flows.
• You need funding for two fees plus the mint amount locked in output zero.

The cost of being late

In a contested mint the quota fills. Every claim after the last valid one is a confirmed Bitcoin transaction that cost a fee and produced nothing.

Check before you build

1. Resolve the ticker to a verified winning Atomical ID.
2. Confirm the Atomical ID matches the one the project published.
3. Read the deployment: mode, mint amount, maximum mints, mint height, Bitwork.
4. Read claims made so far, with the height that figure came from.
5. Confirm the current height is at or past mint_height.
6. Confirm the current Bitwork requirement, especially for a perpetual deployment.

If claims made is already at the maximum, stop. There is nothing left to claim.

The command

yarn cli mint-dft <ticker>

Useful options: --current, --initialowner, --funding, --satsbyte, --rbf, --disablechalk. See the CLI reference.

What happens

1. Commit transaction, ground if commit Bitwork applies.
2. Reveal transaction, ground if reveal Bitwork applies.
3. Output zero of the reveal carries exactly mint_amount satoshis.

Exactly. Not at least.

Cost

Two Bitcoin fees, grinding time, and mint_amount satoshis locked in output zero. In a contested mint, fee rates rise, so budget above the current rate.

If it fails

Failure	Meaning
Quota already full	The claim is invalid. The fee is spent
Before mint_height	Invalid. Wait and try again
Bitwork not met	The grind targeted the wrong requirement
Wrong output zero amount	Invalid. It must be exact
Ticker was a candidate, not a winner	You minted against something that does not hold the name

After broadcast

1. Confirm on Bitcoin.
2. Wait for indexing at that height.
3. Read the claim result. A confirmed transaction is not a successful mint.
4. If valid, read your new coloured outpoint and record it.
5. Move it into your protected pool. See protect coloured outputs.

Source

Decentralised mint claims.