Minting is how you get in on a fair launch at the protocol price — before the token mints out and the only way left is buying at a premium. Four steps, from an empty wallet to freshly-minted supply, safely and non-custodially.
KRC-20 is Kaspa's fungible-token standard, indexed by Kasplex. Three different words get mixed up, and they cost wildly different amounts:
Deploying creates a brand-new token and sets its supply — done once, by the creator (that's the create a token flow). Minting is what everyone else does: while a token's fair launch is still open, you claim freshly-issued supply at the fixed protocol price, one mint at a time, until it mints out. Buying comes after — purchasing tokens someone already holds on a secondary marketplace, usually at a premium.
The practical rule: if a launch is still open, minting is the cheapest way in. You pay the protocol price, not an early holder's markup. The safety step is the same either way — check the token's on-chain fairness before you spend a single KAS. That matters most during a launch wave like Toccata, when dozens of new tokens open a day and not all of them are honest.
Four steps from an empty wallet to freshly-minted supply you hold yourself.
Every mint is paid for in KAS. Buy KAS on an exchange that lists it, then withdraw it to a wallet you control — for example KasWare or Kastle — not left on the exchange. Keep a little extra beyond the mint cost for network fees. New to wallets? The best Kaspa wallet guide compares your options.
Write your seed phrase down offline and never share it. Anyone asking for your seed — "support", a giveaway, a mint site — is a scam.
You can only mint a token whose supply is still minting out. Once it's fully minted, minting closes and the only way in is the secondary market. Watch the live radar and the launch feed for tokens that are open with mint supply remaining — or set alerts so you hear about a launch while it's still mintable, not after it's gone.
Before you spend anything, read the token's on-chain fairness. The radar grades every KRC-20 token A–F from the signals that separate a fair launch from a rug: pre-mint %, mint progress and holder concentration.
A weak grade — a big deployer pre-mint, a few wallets holding most of the supply — is a reason to slow down. No grade guarantees safety, but it moves you from guessing to reading the chain. If you're new to the red flags, the rug-pull checklist walks through each one.
Minting a KRC-20 means submitting mint operations against the open token. Each mint costs a small fixed amount of KAS — a 1 KAS minimum per mint — plus a tiny network fee, and claims one lot of freshly-issued supply at the protocol price. Want more? Mint again. You sign every transaction from your own wallet; nothing takes custody of your funds.
The only real variable is the tool fee. The dominant bots quietly take 5%; minting through the Fair-Launch Radar is a flat 1.75% — nearly 3× cheaper — on the same on-chain mint, and non-custodial.
Minting is one on-chain operation — whichever tool you route it through, you're claiming the same supply at the same protocol price. The difference is what the tool skims on top. The dominant bots take 5%; minting through the Fair-Launch Radar is a flat 1.75%, non-custodial, on the identical mint. Over a launch wave, that gap is real KAS you keep.
Fund a non-custodial Kaspa wallet (such as KasWare or Kastle) with KAS, find a token whose fair launch is still open, check its on-chain fairness, then submit mint transactions to claim freshly-issued supply at the protocol price. Each mint costs a small fixed amount of KAS (a 1 KAS minimum) plus the network fee. Minting through the Fair-Launch Radar is a flat 1.75% and non-custodial — you sign every transaction yourself.
Deploying creates a new token and sets its supply — done once, by the creator. Minting claims freshly-issued supply from an already-deployed token while its launch is still open, at the protocol price. Buying purchases tokens someone already holds on a secondary marketplace, usually at a premium once the launch has minted out. If a launch is still open, minting is almost always the cheapest way in.
Each mint transaction costs a small fixed amount of KAS — a 1 KAS minimum — plus a tiny network fee, and claims one lot of supply at the protocol price. On top of that, the minting tool charges a fee: the dominant bots take about 5%, while minting through the Fair-Launch Radar is a flat 1.75%. There's no premium — you claim supply directly instead of buying from an early holder. See the fee comparison.
Minting itself is a standard on-chain operation, but the token you mint can still be a rug. Before you mint, check the on-chain fairness — pre-mint %, mint progress and holder concentration. The radar grades every token A–F on exactly these signals, and the rug-pull checklist explains each. No grade guarantees safety, but a weak one is a clear warning. Minting is also non-custodial — you keep your keys.
Mint directly while the launch is still open, rather than buying at a secondary-market premium — and route it through the cheapest tool. The dominant bots quietly take 5%; the Fair-Launch Radar is a flat 1.75%, nearly 3× cheaper, on the same on-chain mint and non-custodial.
Yes. KRC-20 tokens live on the Kaspa network and every mint is paid for in KAS — a 1 KAS minimum per mint plus a small network fee. Buy KAS on an exchange, withdraw it to a self-custodial wallet, and mint from there. You don't need any other coin.
Check any token's fairness on the radar, then mint it the cheap way — freshly-issued supply from your own wallet at a flat 1.75%. Keep custody, keep more of every mint.