Token Minting Development Tutorials, Guides & Insights

const {
    Connection,
    PublicKey,
    clusterApiUrl,
    Keypair,
    TransactionInstruction,
    sendAndConfirmTransaction,
} = require('@solana/web3.js');
const { Token, TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID } = require('@solana/spl-token');

// Add your connection, payer, and mint keypair
const connection = new Connection(clusterApiUrl('devnet'), 'confirmed');
const payer = Keypair.fromSecretKey(...); // Replace with your payer keypair
const mint = new PublicKey('Your Mint Public Key');

async function mintToken() {
    const tokenAccount = await Token.getAssociatedTokenAddress(
        mint,
        payer.publicKey
    );

    const instruction = new TransactionInstruction({
        keys: [{ pubkey: tokenAccount, isSigner: false, isWritable: true }],
        programId: TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID,
        data: Buffer.from([]),
    });

    const transaction = await sendAndConfirmTransaction(
        connection,
        new Transaction().add(instruction),
        [payer]
    );

    console.log('Minted token:', transaction);
}

mintToken();

In this tutorial, we covered how to use Solana's Program Library to build a simple application with pre-built functions. By leveraging SPL, you can significantly reduce development time and complexity. The SPL ecosystem is continuously growing, offering more tools and libraries to help you build powerful decentralized applications on Solana.

Check that the SPL Token CLI is installed correctly:

   spl-token --version