Publishing on Zoide starts by submitting a collection: you fill it in, upload it, and it goes to review. Nothing is inscribed on the chain at this stage — you are describing what you want to publish.
This is what a published collection looks like in the halls and in the market — the fields below are what feed it:
Everything below happens in your creator panel. The way in is the same invitation you have already seen at the bottom of the collection halls:
Submit your artwork to be launched at the Mint Zone.
Creator dashboardWhat you need before you start
- Your pieces as files, within 20 each.
- A cover image for the collection.
- At least one social handle — X, Instagram or TreeChat. This is required, not decoration: it is what tells a reviewer, and later a buyer, that there is somebody behind the collection.
You can have up to 5 collections waiting in the queue at once, with up to 1,000 items each.
Submitting is charged by size, at 5 sats per byte of what you upload, because what you are paying for is putting those files on the chain. An airdrop collection costs 3 sats per byte more. Heavy files are not just slow, they are expensive: see Fees — creating and publishing.
Step 1 — what the collection is
This is the form. The two selectors at the top are the ones with consequences: the drop mode, which cannot be changed later, and the AI declaration, which travels with every piece.
Collection details
| Field | Limit | Why it matters later |
|---|---|---|
| Name | 50 characters | It is what people see everywhere. It is not editable once approved |
| Description | 300 characters | The only place to say what this is. Short on purpose |
| Social handles | at least one | Your public link. A collection with none does not get reviewed |
| Price | in satoshis | What each piece costs to mint |
| Drop mode | mint, airdrop or auction | The decision to think about. See below |
| Made with AI | yes / no | Declare it honestly — see AI-generated items |
Confirming step 1 saves it. The collection exists from that moment as a draft, so you can leave and come back, and going back to step 1 from step 2 shows what you saved rather than an empty form.
The drop mode is the one to think about
- Mint — people pay your price and a piece is inscribed for them.
- Airdrop — pieces are given away. It asks you for the list of addresses that can claim.
- Auction — people bid, and each bid pays the previous bidder. See Bid in an auction for the mechanic your buyers will see.
Step 2 — what is in it
The second step is uploads: the cover, then the items. It happens in the same page, without reloading.
Upload the cover before submitting: a collection without one cannot be sent for review.
When an upload finishes, the page refreshes itself so each item appears with its own form — that is where you name them and set their rank. See Prepare your items.
What happens when you submit
The collection goes to pending, waiting for review. You can follow it from your side: Track your submission.
While the status still allows it, everything is editable. Once it does not, step 1 turns read-only — that is the signal, not an error.
Deleting one
You can delete a submitted collection while it is still yours to delete, and its files go with it. A collection you delete before uploading anything deletes cleanly too; there is nothing to clean up and nothing complains.
Related
- Prepare your items
- Limits and quotas
- My drop is not live — the six things between approval and a live drop