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Costs, reads & interrupted uploads
Understand what is being paid for, what a read limit means, and how to resume the existing publication.
Select an underlined word to see what it means.
In this guide
- 01Make
Choose your files and the Parts they need
- 02Preview
See how the complete work opens
- 03Review
Storage, costs, contracts, and wallet
- 04Publish
Keep the receipts and reopen the stored work
Separate setup, storage, and collecting.
A release may need shared infrastructure, new artwork bytes, collection setup, and minting. They are different operations. A Part already published on the selected chain can be reused without charging the artwork for another copy.
A quote should identify the network, the exact plan, which costs are one-time setup, which are new publication, and which belong to the collector.
| Item | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Shared setup | Deploy or register infrastructure that later works may reuse. |
| New publication | Store this work’s new files and required records. |
| Collection or mint action | Create/configure a 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 → or issue the intended 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 →. |
| Read budget | How much work and response size a reader can handle; not itself a mint price. |
A free read can still be too heavy.
Asking a chain service to read data usually does not require your wallet to pay a transaction fee. The service still has to compute and return the result, and it can impose limits.
This is why a work that is cheap to store can still be difficult to return in one large presentation. Measure the whole response, including metadata and preview.
Technical detail: presentation budgets and provider limits
The SDK’s automatic asset threshold is 1,750,000 compressed bytes; the whole tokenURI ceiling is 2,000,000 bytes. Its EVM read gas ceiling is min(60,000,000, latest block gas limit), with actual provider behavior checked separately. These figures are not Tezos limits, universal file limits, current network prices, or measured publication fees.
Review the actual plan and quote.
Optimization can change the output file, so inspect the result and keep the original. Compare exact new bytes, reused PartsReusable components included in a work, with their own identities and permissions.For exampleSeveral artworks can share the same verified drawing library.Full glossary entry →, and any required decoder or setup cost.
Quotes depend on the chosen network and current conditions. Use measured plan data and the current quote rather than turning an illustrative number in a guide into a price.
Continue the existing job after an interruption.
If an upload stops responding, it may still be running. Don’t start over: open its saved progress, see which steps finished, and continue from there.
Resume the remaining work after that reconciliation. Starting a new collection, mint, or replacement upload before checking the existing job can duplicate actions.
Technical detail: durable recovery
Retain the exact account, network, plan digest, operation sequence, cursor, transaction/batch identifiers, and server-issued recovery envelope. Confirm receipt and state before retrying an uncertain submission. A client-side exception is not proof that a chain operation failed.
Completion includes checking the result.
The job finishing its transactions is one milestone. Recover the files, compare their MarkA file's computed fingerprint, also called a digest or hash. A reader recomputes it to check the bytes.For exampleChanging the sketch's background color changes its Mark. A filename alone would not reveal that change.Full glossary entry → and sizes, and inspect the resulting 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 →’s metadata and presentation.
Only those later checks tell you what the collector can actually retrieve and open.