🎥 How to Create a Token-Burning Candy Machine on Solana

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Candy Machine V3 is Deprecated

This guide uses Sugar V2 with Candy Machine V3, which has been deprecated. For new NFT projects, see How to Launch an NFT Collection with Metaplex Core Candy Machine. This guide is for historic educational purposes only.

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Steps

Install Solana CLI
Download and Install Sugar (CMV3)
Set keypair (-k) and RPC (-u) in Solana CLI (solana config set -u RPC-URL). Replace RPC-URL with a Solana RPC which you can also get Quicknode.
Config Candy Machine wihtout Candy Guards
Upload Assets (sugar validate -> sugar upload)
Deploy Candy Machine (sugar deploy)
Add Candy Guard (see below) (sugar guard add)
Fork Solana Scaffold (gh repo clone solana-labs/dapp-scaffold .)
Add dependencies (yarn add @metaplex-foundation/js @solana/spl-token env)
Update next.config.js (link)
Update .env
Update Mint Button

Candy Guard

    "default": {
      "tokenBurn":{
        "amount": 100000,
        "mint": "bonkKjzREa7pVBRD6nFPAKRaHhS7XpDhhgZCZdGNkuU"
      }
    }

Resources

Bonk Mainnet

BONK_MINT = DezXAZ8z7PnrnRJjz3wXBoRgixCa6xjnB7YaB1pPB263 BONK_DECIMALS = 5 ONE_BONK = 100000 // 1e5 b/c 5 decimals

Bonk Devnet (user-created example)

create your own fungible token

BONK_MINT = bonkKjzREa7pVBRD6nFPAKRaHhS7XpDhhgZCZdGNkuU BONK_DECIMALS = 5 ONE_BONK = 100000 // 1e5 b/c 5 decimals CANDY_MACHINE_ID = ARH5Dx3DYJ1qisBzJWubuhehLaPDA3PiSS2Piv6CQvgj

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🎥 How to Create a Token-Burning Candy Machine on Solana

Steps​

Candy Guard​

Resources​

Bonk Mainnet​

Bonk Devnet (user-created example)​