Mint

When a normal file becomes an nft, it needs to be stored on the same blockchain as the desired collection. This could be anything ranging from your digital identity docs to a bunch of jpegs that are pumped by marketing schemes.

The mint happens when the normal document get consumed by the blockchain and thus tokenized. It now has a unique identifier on the blockchain that can never be edited. The chain from this point on can only add data to the nft's story, but not erase or edit it.

I like Spearmint the most..

Yo, I didn't realize I was apeing in last night until I checked Opensea this morning. Luckily I didn't get hacked, but dang minting was so easy!