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KEEL collections & minting
The DieThe artist's token contract. It records the Slabs, their owners or balances, supply, and presentation bindings.For exampleA Die can issue a series of 100 individually identified works.Full glossary entry → records ownership and supply. KEEL’s creator factory, mint campaigns, and staged drops give releases their structure.
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In this guide
One token. One original.
One collector holds the one token for this work. A direct mint, campaign, or suitable auction can determine how it reaches them.
Early supporters and the public can use ordered stages with a shared allocation.
Choose the shape of the collection.
A one-of-one has one collectible. A series gives each token its own identity. An edition gives an item multiple copies. The DieThe artist's token contract. It records the Slabs, their owners or balances, supply, and presentation bindings.For exampleA Die can issue a series of 100 individually identified works.Full glossary entry → records ownership and supply; a SlabThe collectible token recorded in your wallet. It identifies an owned item and points to its work.For exampleYou collect Tidal Study #7. That token is your Slab; the artwork files have their own storage records.Full glossary entry → is the collectible in the wallet.
Choose a dedicated creator-owned contract when your collection needs its own address and administration. A shared editions contract offers a different arrangement: separate items inside shared infrastructure. Those choices should be visible before you create anything.
| Collection choice | What it means |
|---|---|
| Your own unique-token collection | An address for a series of individually identified SlabThe collectible token recorded in your wallet. It identifies an owned item and points to its work.For exampleYou collect Tidal Study #7. That token is your Slab; the artwork files have their own storage records.Full glossary entry →. |
| Your own editions collection | One creator contract with several items, each with its own supply. |
| A shared editions contract | Your logical collection lives alongside others in one contract, with separate item identifiers. |
| An existing collection | Keep its original contract and check which KEEL operations it permits. |
Technical detail: ERC-721, ERC-721A, ERC-1155, and FA2
ERC-721 supplies individually identified tokens. ERC-721A is a compatible implementation used for efficient batch minting, not a separate token standard. ERC-1155 tracks quantities per item. Current dedicated creator contracts use immutable minimal clones; shared ERC-1155 collections use partitioned IDs. Tezos uses the separate FA2 interface. Creator editions are not currently available through the Tezos tools.
Choose how collectors receive Slabs.
Minting creates a token; in KEEL’s vocabulary the DieThe artist's token contract. It records the Slabs, their owners or balances, supply, and presentation bindings.For exampleA Die can issue a series of 100 individually identified works.Full glossary entry → strikes a SlabThe collectible token recorded in your wallet. It identifies an owned item and points to its work.For exampleYou collect Tidal Study #7. That token is your Slab; the artwork files have their own storage records.Full glossary entry →. The release rules decide who can request that mint, when it opens, how much it costs, and how many can be issued.
A campaign has its own allocation and eligibility. A OneMint drop has ordered stages and shared limits. FRAYKEEL's auction contest between an individual bidder and a collective of patrons. The separate FRAY game project uses KEEL too.For exampleThe published auction rules decide whether a unique-work or edition outcome is issued.Full glossary entry → decides between an individual bidder and a collective of patrons under the auction’s rules.
| Mechanism | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Direct mint | A creator-authorized mint to a reviewed recipient |
| Mint campaign | Campaign supply, wallet limits, payment, eligibility, and optional signatures |
| OneMint drop | Ordered stages with shared allocation and per-wallet accounting |
| FRAYKEEL's auction contest between an individual bidder and a collective of patrons. The separate FRAY game project uses KEEL too.For exampleThe published auction rules decide whether a unique-work or edition outcome is issued.Full glossary entry → auction | A single bidder competes with a collective of patrons for how the work is released |
Explain the gate in ordinary language.
An allowlist names eligible accounts. A token gate checks whether an account holds a required token. A signature gate checks a specific authorization. A wallet limit caps how much one account may mint.
These rules control an action such as minting. They do not make publicly stored artwork files private. State the exact action each permission controls.
An existing contract keeps its own rules.
An ABI is a machine-readable list of an Ethereum contract’s buttons and inputs. Importing it helps tools display controls; it does not prove that an address runs that implementation or that you can use every button.
A proxy is an address that forwards calls to implementation code. Inspect the actual network, address, implementation, and authority before preparing a change. Registering a collection for discovery does not automatically make it mintable through KEEL.
Creator ownership is part of the contract design.
KEEL’s dedicated creator factory initializes each new collection for the creator who makes it. The collection gets its own address. The implementation defines the owner’s controls, while delegated minting and other roles keep their own limits.
A token holder has different powers from a collection administrator. Shared editions use separate item identities inside shared infrastructure; creating an item does not grant ownership of that entire contract.
Source detail: dedicated collection creation
KeelCreatorFactory.createERC721 and createERC1155 create deterministic clones and pass msg.sender as the creator during initialization. Existing collections require authority checks before directory registration. Individual functions and current contract state determine owner and manager powers; the factory is not a promise of unlimited control.