How to View Your NFT in Your Wallet
This tutorial describes how to view an existing an NFT on your virtual Ethereum wallet (Metamask in this case)! If you’d like to learn how to mint your own NFT on Ethereum, you should check out our guide on How to Create an NFT smart contract!
Congrats! You’ve made it to the shortest and simplest part of our NFT tutorial series — how to view your freshly minted NFT on a virtual wallet. We’ll be using Metamask for this example since it is what we used in the previous two parts.
As a prerequisite, you should already have Metamask on mobile installed, and it should include the account to which you minted your NFT — you can get the app for free on iOS or Android .
Step 1: Set your network to Ropsten
At the top of the app, press the “Wallet” button, after which you’ll be prompted to select a network. As our NFT was minted on the Ropsten network, you’ll want to select Ropsten as your network.
Step 2: Add your collectable to Metamask
Once you’re on the Ropsten network, select the “Collectibles” tab on the right and add the NFT smart contract address and the ERC-721 token ID of your NFT — which you should be able to find on Etherscan based on the transaction hash from your NFT deployed in Part II of our tutorial.
You may need to refresh a couple times to view your NFT — but it will be there! 😄
Congrats! You have successfully minted an NFT, and you can now view it! We can’t wait to see how you’ll take the NFT world by storm! 🧸🪄🧙🤑🎊
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