FAQ

Short answers to the questions people ask first. Each links to the page that covers it properly.

What kind of collections can I launch?

Collections of images, still or animated, one piece per number. There are three ways in:

1. From layers. You supply one folder per layer and KURV combines them into a set where every piece differs. You choose how much of that is random: pin ten pieces by hand in a thousand, or pin every piece in a set of fifty. Read Prepare your layers.
2. From finished art. Pieces you made somewhere else, one PNG, GIF, WebP or JPG file each, with a metadata.json that lists them. Read Bring art you already made.
3. From a collection already on Base. Open Explore and press Bring a collection to trade it here at its own royalty, up to 10%. Read Explore and trade.

Do I need to code, or own a wallet?

No to both. Drop in your folder, or a ZIP on a phone, and get a collection back. There is no file to edit and no key to set up.

Log in with Google, Apple, email, Base, X or Telegram, and a wallet is made for you. Start with Log in and your wallet.

Do I need an invite?

To mint, trade, publish and launch. Looking around and generating a collection in your browser need no invitation. See Your invitation.

What does it cost?

• Paid mint: 5% of the price to KURV. The creator keeps 0% to 100% of the rest; the remainder goes to the Vault.
• Free mint: $0.25 for each piece minted, charged in the collection’s coin.
• Sale between collectors: one royalty of 5%, the same on every KURV collection.
• Selling back to a Vault: the Vault keeps 10% of the backing, plus that royalty.
• Launching and publishing: nothing.
• Network costs: separate from all of these.

Fees works each one through on $100. Read Risks and disclaimer before you launch or mint.

Does every collection have a Vault?

Every collection launched on KURV has a Vault, and it can hold $0. Collections brought over from another launchpad have none and trade here at their own royalty, up to 10%. The creator decides how much of each mint goes into it, from nothing at all, and a Vault that opens at $0 is normal.

The Vault gets whatever mint money the creator leaves in it, plus 25% of every royalty paid in the collection’s own coin: every sale on KURV’s market, and royalties on other marketplaces paid in that coin once someone routes them. A royalty paid in any other coin sends the Vault’s quarter to the creator. It also gets every mint top-up and what its own resales bring after the creator’s and KURV’s royalty shares, and on every sell-back it keeps 10% of the backing and its 25% of the royalty. The Vault’s share of a trade counts toward Vault Backing and the Vault Exit once it is booked, at the next mint or Vault sale. The Vault covers what it holds and what it pays.

Is the Vault a price I can sell at?

It is a price you can sell to the Vault at, once the Vault holds money. The market price is a separate number, set by collectors, and the two can be far apart.

For a piece carrying $100 of backing, you receive $85.00. The rest is the 10% the Vault keeps and the 5% royalty, split between the creator, the Vault and KURV. Sell a piece back to the Vault shows every column.

A piece sells back to its own collection’s Vault. Read Fees and Risks and disclaimer.

Where does a sold-back piece go?

Every piece is kept: a sold-back piece waits in the Vault’s inventory, and the Vault can sell it again, even when no piece is out. If every piece is sold back, the next paid piece restarts the collection at its Last Vault Backing, whether it is minted or bought from the Vault. A free piece cannot restart it, and what the Vault kept stays in it.

Can I change my art after launch?

On a collection that reveals at launch, the contract allows the pieces to be pointed at new files until you press Freeze. Your collections has no control for that; it offers Freeze, which locks the art for good.

A collection launched as a mystery mint reveals only the art it sealed at launch, and the reveal freezes that art in the same signature. Read Reveal, pause, freeze and your dashboard.

Which network?

Base or Solana: the creator picks one at launch. Each collection is priced in one coin its creator picks at launch: USDC by default, or any other coin on Base. Every price on that collection is in that coin. Network fees come out of your USDC. Read Gas and network fees.

Is my collection stored forever?

Partly.

• On chain: the contract, and who holds each piece.
• On IPFS: the images and labels, pinned by KURV.

Freeze makes the link to your files permanent, not the files themselves. Read Publish your files.

Something broke. How do I report it?

The page shows Something broke on our side and a Reference code such as K7Q2-MX4D. The code never uses the letters I, L, O or U, so it reads cleanly off a phone screen. Write it down.

Then send a message to @kurvfun on X with the link of the page you were on, the time, what you pressed just before it went wrong, and the reference code. Add a screenshot if you have one.

Your public wallet address is fine to share. Never share your login codes or recovery details. Nobody at KURV will ask for them.

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Still stuck? Try the Glossary. Before you launch, mint or sell back, read Risks and disclaimer.