4. Mint your token

What is minting?

Minting means to generate tokens in your native cryptocurrency.

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In this tutorial we will show you how to generate tokens in your native cryptocurrency and send them to other addresses.

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Guide

Go to Assets page of Porta Console.

​https://console.porta.network/#/assets​

Go to the row displaying your cryptocurrency and select: Mint

Choose:

• Who to send the tokens to

• The amount of tokens to send

Go to the balances tab of Assets page

You will see a list of any accounts you have that hold your cryptocurrency token

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You can now move onto step 5: Create a smart contract and upload it to the Porta blockchain.