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Whitelist allows collection creators to decide which wallet addresses can participate in the mint.
For example, when you run a great exclusive community (like BFC) you want to be sure that only the right people will get your token. Almost every NFT drop is exclusive to a specific set of public addresses.
Otherwise, strangers or trading bots would be able to get your precious NFTs and run away with them to the secondary market.
That's why whitelisting is super important. Most collection creators do not want such situations to happen.
Collecting public wallet addresses usually happens off-chain (without touching any blockchain stuff). All you have to do is to contact your people, collect their wallet addresses and prepare the list.
You may use Google Forms or any other tooling for it. That's a pretty straightforward procedure, so I wonโt cover it in this article.
Way more problematic part is the smart contract code. The contract needs to validate if the caller is approved to participate in the mint. Secondly, the contract cannot allow callers to mint more tokens than expected.
Having all the above in mind let's dive into three common techniques of whitelisting and examine their pros and cons.
