GM builders ☀️ Another week to learn, build, and get 1% better. Last week we kept showing up. This week, we raise the bar. Whether you’re launching a project, learning crypto, or building a business after work… Let’s make progress. 🫡 What’s the goal this week?

And look at the founder control dashboard

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Yes, buddy—free to mint and free of all costs are different promises. One adjustment: the founder doesn’t necessarily have to prepay the entire collection’s gas. They, the launchpad, or another sponsor need a system that covers it as people mint. Simply paying deployment gas doesn’t cover collectors’ future transactions. Here’s a post you could use: Let’s clear up some confusion around “FREE MINTS.” 🧵👇 There are three separate costs to understand: deploying the collection, the NFT’s mint price, and the network fee to mint it. On CorgiStudio, founders pay no platform deployment fee. They still pay the blockchain’s gas fee to deploy their collection. That deployment transaction does not pay for everyone else to mint later. When a founder sets the NFT price to $0, the NFT itself is free—but collectors may still need to pay gas. For a mint to cost the collector absolutely nothing, someone else must cover that network fee: the founder, the launchpad, or another sponsor through a supported sponsorship setup. Any additional minting fees would also need to be covered or waived. Example: imagine 300 NFTs with a network cost of $0.05 per NFT. That’s $15 in minting gas someone needs to fund, separate from deployment. This is just an example—actual costs vary by network and transaction. A founder could fund a gas-sponsorship budget so collectors can mint without paying those fees themselves. The clearest way to advertise it: 🔹 “Free mint + gas” — NFT price is $0; collector pays the network fee. 🔹 “Free mint, gas sponsored” — NFT price is $0; someone else covers the network fee. Free to the collector is possible. The transaction cost still has to be covered. Clear wording builds trust. 🤝

A pretty special milestone for me today. I launched the new CorgiStudio Creator Hub foundation on Oct. 1 after months of rebuilding it piece by piece after work. Email accounts. Command Centre. Wallet linking. Unified holdings. Collections. Staking. Launchpad. Marketplace. A completely new foundation. And I kept building. Today Solana Phase 1 joins Base, Polygon and Cronos. Phantom + Solflare. Solana NFT holdings. Solana collections. Multi-chain portfolio tools. 4 networks inside one Command Centre. I’m proud of this one. The next phase is about making the Creator Hub substantially more useful — self-custodial staking, creator tools, stronger VIP benefits, analytics, Spotlight, deployment services, rewards, better onboarding and continued Solana expansion. I never wanted to rebuild another NFT marketplace. I want to build something creators without a dev bench can actually use to build and run their projects. Still a long road ahead. But today feels like one of those days where I can finally look back and say: Yeah… this thing is becoming real. ⚙️🚀

GM friends ☀️ Take a breath today. Look at how far you’ve come. Appreciate the people around you. Think about where you want to go next. Progress isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s simply refusing to give up. Hope you have a great Sunday.

I built the new CorgiStudio after work, one evening at a time over the course of 6 months. Since October 1: 35 verified users. 3 verified VIP subscribers. As a solo founder, seeing people give something I’m building a chance means more than I can explain. Thank you for being here. ❤️

GM everyone! 🐶☀️ Build something you’re proud of. Support someone else’s journey. Take time to enjoy life outside the screen, too. The goal is to build a life you enjoy, not just a project you work on. What’s on your Saturday agenda? xitter.cf/samcivicx/status/21136…