⛏️How to mint?

To mint and control your inscriptions, you will need to use our open-source wallet. Our wallet is a fork of Monero with a number of modifications that allow us to have Mordinal protocol on top of the Monero blockchain. Here are a few simple steps that you need to follow to mint your ordinals:

1. Build the CLI wallet (targeting simplewallet in make) and the daemon. Detailed instructions on how to build the wallet can be found here: https://github.com/mooonero/mordinals#compiling-monero-from-source

2. Launch the daemon and wait until it is synchronized. You can download the Monero blockchain from https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/#blockchain to speed up the synchronization process. Alternatively, you can copy the blockchain from any other synchronized Monero node (just make sure to stop it first).

3. Generate a new wallet using the command line. Remember to backup your seed phrase, as this is mandatory.

./monero-wallet-cli --generate-new-wallet=/home/wallets/my_mordinals.xmr

4. Open the wallet and synchronize it with the daemon.

./monero-wallet-cli --wallet-file=/home/wallets/my_mordinals.xmr

5. Tip this address with some funding (10-20$ equivalent should be enough) and wait for the required confirmations. Check that balance is confirmed be "balance" command:

[wallet 31yfs3]: balance

Currently selected account: [0] Primary account

Tag: (No tag assigned)

Balance: 0.121121000000, unlocked balance: 0.121121000000

6. Prepare a .png image that you would like to use as your inscription, and create a .txt file where you can include some short text associated with your inscription. Note that the text file can be left empty.

7. Launch simplewallet and pass the following command to it:

[wallet 31yfs3]: mint_inscription /home/images/my_inscription.png /home/description.txt

Every inscription has a unique hash, which means you can only inscribe a single image once. Further transactions with the same bytes will be ignored by mordinals explorer.

8. Wait until the transaction is confirmed, and then check https://mordinals.org to see if your inscription has been recognized and registered.

9. Bask in the glory of being inscribed in Monero's history!

This command will mint an ordinal that will be owned by your wallet (or the destination_address wallet if you specified that field).

IMPORTANT!!! Do not use the same wallet with standard Monero software and ours - this can lead to the loss of inscriptions (they can be accidentally spent and control over them will be lost).

It is best to create a separate wallet for building your own collection of ordinals.