minting
7 synonyms and 1 antonym for minting, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The act of creating a new token or NFT by recording it on a blockchain for the first time, so that it exists and has a first owner.
Synonyms
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
The act of creating a new token or NFT by recording it on a blockchain for the first time, so that it exists and has a first owner.
“Minting opened at noon and the whole collection was claimed in under an hour.”
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2. verb
Present participle of mint: creating such a token or NFT on a blockchain.
“He spent more on fees than on the artwork itself while minting it.”
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How to use minting
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Standard in crypto writing, including formal documentation. The word carries its ordinary English sense elsewhere, so context does the work.
Etymology
From mint, a place where money is coined, ultimately from Latin moneta, a title of the goddess Juno in whose temple Roman coins were struck; the blockchain sense borrows the metaphor of issuing new currency.
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