While today’s most popular NFTs are image-based, pictures are just a fraction of what NFTs are capable of. At their core, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are simply proofs of ownership written on a blockchain. These proofs of ownership represent an asset, digital or physical, and link it to an individual's blockchain address. The result is a publicly verifiable file, showing a certain thing owned by a certain person.

So, can an article be an NFT? Absolutely!

At first glance, Mirror may just look like a web3 platform for publishing and monetizing articles — something like a blockchain-based Medium or Substack. But under the hood, Mirror is a powerful tool for creating content and building communities. It gives you everything you need for minting NFTs, crowdfunding, splitting proceeds from sales, and even minting ERC20 tokens to distribute to new community members.

Today, we’re going to write our first Mirror articles and publish them as NFTs. Let’s go!

Here comes the really important part: setting the price and supply of your Writing NFT.

Mirror recommends setting an accessible price (<0.01 ETH, currently <$20 USD) and a sizable supply (>100 units) so that many people will be able to collect your Writing NFT. You can read more here.

It’s important that you think this one through. After publishing your entry you’ll be able to edit its content but not the price and supply values that you’ve set.

Once you’ve given it some good thought, confirm the values and click Publish.