Introduction to Scatter
Scatter is an artist first marketplace and launchpad where you can create NFT collections, mint, buy, and sell NFTs. We are by the people for the people. We are the art wellspring of NFTs. We embody the revolutionary spirit of crypto, of returning ownership to the people.
For a reading path based on whether you are collecting, creating a collection, or building an app, continue with Getting Started.
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 realize 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 know it 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, it's 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://faucetlink.to/sepolia ↗.
Note: Sepolia faucets may at times not work. You may be better of doing testing on a fresh wallet on L2s like Base if you can't get yourself some sETH.
Unmatched Feature Set
There's more than one way to skin an ape, and there's more than one way to mint a collection; that's why here at Scatter we continually roll out new mint features for creators to use to create a minting experience that perfectly fits their product.
- Uploader - Scatter offers an easy to use uploader that allows you to drag and drop your media and metadata into a simple interface and then deploy your collection with a single click, including autogenerating and editing metadata/traits, no coding or scripts required.
- 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.
- 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.
Minimal fees
See Fees for deployment fees, minting platform fees, and the public mint-list minimum. The same page also documents the marketplace fee split, separately from minting.
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!
Scatter Media Kit
For Scatter logos and brand assets for press, promotional materials, or creative projects, use the Scatter Media Kit ↗. Follow the kit's usage guidelines when working with these assets.