Anvil Minting

Overview

Anvil Minting is a hosted minting service that lets brands launch a branded mint page where supporters connect a wallet and claim tokens or NFTs in a few clicks. It targets projects, studios, and businesses that want to release digital collectibles or community tokens without building the mint infrastructure themselves¹.

Each client launch lives on its own dedicated subdomain, so the page looks and feels like the brand running the drop rather than a third-party tool. Anvil Minting is built and operated by Anvil Development Agency, Inc., a Cardano-focused development studio. The same team also ships the Anvil API and SDK for developers who want lower-level building blocks, and a sister marketplace called Wayup.io². For browsing Cardano builders behind a launch, see development companies.

Key Features

• Branded mint page on its own subdomain. Each project gets a dedicated address on ada-anvil.io with its own visual identity, so supporters mint on a page that looks like the brand, not a generic marketplace¹.
• NFT and fungible token support in one platform. Brands can mint non-fungible tokens (used for collectibles, tickets, or memberships) and fungible tokens (used for project currencies or reward points) through the same hosted setup².
• No-code launch path for brands without engineering teams. Brands work with Anvil to configure the collection, and Anvil handles transaction building and on-chain delivery, which suits studios, sports teams, and consumer brands new to the chain¹.
• Developer track via the Anvil API and SDK. Teams that want to build their own mint flow can call the Anvil API for transactions, minting, and smart contract deployment, or pull in the JavaScript SDK to wire Cardano actions into an existing Web app³⁴.
• Backed by an active development studio. Anvil's code lives under the Cardano-Forge GitHub organization, and the company has been shipping Cardano products since 2021⁵².

What to Expect

For a brand evaluating Anvil as a minting service, the journey is closer to hiring a launch partner than installing a piece of software. The team scopes the collection (supply, royalties, art, claim mechanics), spins up a project-specific mint page on a brand subdomain, and runs the on-chain plumbing. The brand controls the customer-facing pieces like art, copy, marketing, and social, while Anvil owns the transaction layer behind the scenes.

For a supporter visiting one of those mint pages, the flow is short: open the brand's mint URL, connect a Cardano wallet, confirm the transaction, and the new token appears in the wallet shortly after. Visitors do not need an account on ada-anvil.io itself.

For developers, the API and SDK are documented separately on docs.ada-anvil.io and dev.ada-anvil.io, and live alongside guides for smart contracts, wallets, and a tournament builder. Teams can start with the docs to gauge fit before committing to a paid project.