What Is a Free Mint? The NFT Launch Format Where You Only Pay Gas

A free mint is an NFT launch where the project charges nothing for the token itself. You connect a wallet, click mint, and pay only the network’s gas fee. The project gives the supply away and hopes a secondary market forms afterwards. That sounds like free money. Sometimes it is. I flipped more than 100 Bored Apes in the last cycle, and some of the best trades I ever made started with a mint that cost a few dollars in gas.