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

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A video showing how to build a token-burning Candy Machine on Solana where an SPL token needs to be burned to mint an NFT.

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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"
      }
    }

Logs for Simplified Debugging

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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)​