Introduction to Scatter

Scatter is an artist first platform where you can create NFT collections, mint, buy, and sell NFTs. We are by the people for the people. We are the art underground of NFTs. We embody the revolutionary spirit of Web3, of returning ownership to the people.

Because we have the freedom to say and make what we want, we must.

Scatter's vision is to not be the one to decide which art is worth minting or not, our view is that this is the role of art collectors. You can fully launch your project on Scatter without contacting us at all. Ideally we still want you to open a communication line with us before we onboard you and your project onto Scatter. We want to support you directly and make sure everything is perfect for your launch so after you read these docs if anything is unclear or you simply want someone to double check your work our DMs are open.

Anyone can use our minting solution to deploy contracts for anything they want. When you deploy a contract with our minting solution, you control it on chain as the owner of the collection's contract.

Scatter contracts are compatible with all other NFT marketplaces meaning that collections launched on Scatter will be able to show up on all aggregator marketplaces which automatically list all collections.

More than a Launchpad

Scatter goes above and beyond what a typical product launchpad platform may offer. Scatter is a home for artists to express themselves and share their art with the world in a sustainable way. Scatter wants to help you achieve your artistic vision!

Our success is your success. We put our hearts into making Scatter better for you. We will relentlessly seek to develop and improve our most innovative and useful offerings that enable you to make the art that you love.

Scatter Cares

Scatter’s default contracts have both low deploy fees and low mint fees. We use ERC-721A in our ERC-721 contracts and Solady in all of our contracts.

When you deploy your collection, you are deploying through our contract factories. This saves you up front $$$ over deploying contracts directly. When gas is low it typically costs only ~$10-20 in gas to deploy a collection contract on Scatter for Ethereum chain. For Layer 2 chains such as Base it will be just cents.

When people mint your NFTs, they won’t be paying ridiculous gas fees, and if they mint multiple ERC-721 NFTs at once in bulk it will cost them almost the same in gas fees as minting a single NFT.

These lower fees enable all artists to get started with NFTs.

A big difference between Scatter and others is that for every project we want the best possible outcome. Most optimized transactions for your collectors. Features that most closely realizes your artistic vision.

Why Scatter

Access to a team with millions in NFT sales

The Scatter team wants your project to be successful and will advise you on best practices for your launch. We have worked with many teams helping them do their launches and can help you to avoid common mistakes while also encouraging you to seek out viable opportunities.

Less overall risk, lower friction, a contract your minters can trust

Scatter contracts are battle tested and audited. You do not need a technical background to deploy them. You avoid many common human errors by using our contract factories.

On the other hand, your minters can rest easy knowing they are interacting with a contract and platform from a trusted team and community. Random dapps require trusted people to read the contracts and verify that they are safe, and even then contracts can be swapped, exploited, or misinterpreted. Using Scatter will lower your minting friction as people know how Scatter works and is not going to be compromised by 3rd party contract code.

Low cost to deploy, low cost to mint

Scatter's contract factories enable you to create a contract that you own on chain without incurring the hefty costs often involved in deploying a collection. When you deploy a contract on Scatter, that contract cryptographically belongs to you, no shared store front trickery, its your collection, your art, your keys.

Scatter's contracts are optimized to balance low fees with the features you and your minters want.

Easy to use testnet

Scatter supports Sepolia testnet which enables you to safely experiment with creating and managing a collection without spending any money to ensure that everything is perfect when it comes time for your mainnet launch. You can get free sETH at a variety of faucets: https://www.infura.io/faucet/sepolia ↗ or https://www.google.com/search?q=sepolia+faucet ↗ or https://faucetlink.to/sepolia ↗.

Unmatched Feature Set

Theres more than one way to skin an ape, and theres more than one way to mint a collection, that's why here at Scatter we continually roll out new mint features for creators to make use to create a minting experience that perfectly fits their product.

Bulk Minting Discounts - Want to encourage your holders to mint multiples? Scatter's UI makes it easy for you to set discounted prices for collectors minting multiples

Burn to Mint - Are you creating a sequel/sister collection? Do you have a "phase 2" for your NFTs? Want your mint to reduce another collection's supply? Then our Burn to Mint functionality is for you! When enabling Burn to Mint, creators allow collectors to sacrifice a particular NFT to mint one from the new collection. Scatter's Burn to Mint function ensures sacrificed NFTs are fully burned on-chain, so holders do not have to worry about teams executing burn after the mint.

Instareveal - Scatter offers exclusive access to our instareveal solution for projects minting on the platform. With instareveal you can have your NFTs reveal as they are minted instead of waiting for mintout, while also being sure that you won't be gamed by rarity snipers.

Scatter API - Scatter's API is a powerful tool that allows you to integrate Scatter collections into your own app. Want a totally custom minting website, with all your own visuals and unique features? You can build that with the Scatter API, while still taking advantage of Scatter's battle tested contracts and community.

Minimal fees

Scatter only gets paid when you do. Scatter charges a 5% platform fee on paid mints, for most chains. The fee can vary somewhat for certain chains so please check when you deploy. This fee is taken from the mint cost and is not an added cost for minters. This fee is tracked on-chain and uses the same system as our on-chain affiliate program. Scatter does not take anything from external marketplace royalties - those are all yours.

To protect our community from spam and maintain platform integrity, we've implemented a small (~$2 USD) deployment fee for L2/3s (not necessary on mainnet as the usual gas fee is enough). This nominal fee helps prevent malicious actors from flooding the platform with scam collections while keeping costs minimal for legitimate creators. The platform fee remains our only other fee.

All services Scatter provides are covered under the platform fee. This includes custom contract work, custom mint page work, any support you need, or any consulting you need that we can reasonably provide. If you have any technical questions not covered in these docs do not be shy about reaching out to us.

Free mint collections where we get nothing are still welcome on Scatter. Our mission is to provide a safe and open platform for art collections and that includes providing confidence for collectors in claiming free mints so we are happy to provide this service. You can also use Scatter to airdrop collections to lists of addresses at no cost from us, you only pay gas fees.

Custom Support

Do you want a custom dapp? Do you need custom contract features? Scatter has enabled many partners to realize their technical and creative visions, and we can help you too. If you've got plans that go beyond an NFT mint, and are looking for assistance in execution just let us know!