How to mint an NFT from a Smart Contract?

Julien van Dorland
3 min readAug 19, 2021

Minting from an NFT project’s own website may be unpleasant at times, especially if the website is slow or badly designed. But then you see others minting and you ask yourself, “How do I mint the NFT if other people are minting but the website is down?” It’s because these people are minting NFTs straight from the Etherscan Smart Contract rather than through the website. In this Medium post, I’ll show exactly you how to accomplish this too.

Step 1 — Find the Contract Address

The first thing you’ll need to do is search for the Contract Address. Most NFT projects will have this available on their Discord server. Of course, if they don’t, you can always ask them for it. If a project has already minted NFTs (for example, through a pre-sale), you can go to the official collection page on OpenSea and click on any NFT in the collection, then go to “Details” and check for the “Contract Address”. You can click this to be taken to an Etherscan page.

An example of a Contract Address shown under the ‘’Details’’ section.

Step 2 — Write to Contract and Connect to Web3

After you’ve found the Contract Address, you’ll need to look for the ‘’Contract’’ button with…

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Julien van Dorland
Julien van Dorland

Written by Julien van Dorland

Julien is a digital artist from the Netherlands who uses vivid abstraction to express his thoughts and ideas. ✦ Say hi! ↬ hi@julien.pro