Launchpad Whitelists and Stages, Explained

Step 1: How a launch is put together

You reach it from DreamForge: open the collection, then Launchpad.

Collection. The Hedera token. The NFTs you sell sit in one minting wallet, usually the treasury. The wallet is stored on the collection, so every launch of that collection shares it.
Launch. The mint event: name, artwork, description, mint type. One launch holds one pool of NFTs.
Stages. The schedule. Each stage is Whitelist or Public, with its own dates, price and limits. Add as many as you need.
Whitelists hang off a Whitelist stage. Each stage has its own list, built from pasted wallets, token gates, or both.

Mint type	What the collector does	Notes
Mint	Pays the stage price, receives an NFT	The normal drop. Whitelist and public stages, a price per stage.
Free Claim	Claims without paying for the NFT	Same stage and whitelist tools. Fixed setup fee, no per-NFT commission.
NFT Swap	Hands in an NFT from an old collection, receives one from the new one	Set up together with the SentX team.

Hide NFT from user when minting. The collector sees the NFT only after the mint (random reveal). Keep it on unless rarity does not matter for your collection.
SentX platform only. Hides the launch from third-party apps that read the public SentX API. It stays fully public on sentx.io. Not a privacy setting.
Minting wallet approval. The minting wallet has to approve the launchpad to move NFTs out of it. The launch dialog shows the approval live and offers a one-click authorize if it is missing or was revoked.

Step 2: Stage settings

Every stage has the same controls.

Setting	What it does
Stage Type	Whitelist: only wallets on this stage's list can mint. Public: anyone.
Start / End	Date and time, entered in your local time. Collectors see it in theirs. The mint button opens and closes on the server clock, not the browser's.
Price, Payment Token	Price in HBAR, or in one of the fungible tokens SentX supports. Each stage has its own price, so holders can pay less than the public.
Dynamic price	HBAR only. You set a USD price and the HBAR price is recalculated every minute. Useful for multi-day mints.
Max Simultaneous NFTs per mint	How many NFTs one transaction may contain, 1 to 10. A per-transaction size, not a per-wallet total.
Limit max mints per user	Optional hard cap per wallet for the stage, counted across all of that wallet's transactions. On a whitelist stage it caps the spots a wallet earned. Leave it off and each wallet gets its full spots.
Real Time Token Gating	Instead of a snapshot, the collector burns a whitelist NFT live and receives spots for it. Burn-to-mint. Needs the per-user limit set. Not available on swaps.
Private stage (link only)	Hidden from the launchpad index, search, activity feeds and the public API. Anyone with the link can open it.
Restrict access to whitelisted wallets	Only whitelisted wallets can open the stage page at all. Your own wallet must be on the list too. Turn it on after the list has wallets, or nobody can open the page.
Published	Unpublished stages are invisible to collectors. Save as a draft, publish later.
Friendly URL	Generated for you. Every stage has its own link: sentx.io/launchpad/<launch>-whitelist, -whitelist-2, -public. Share the stage link, not the collection link.

Stages run in date order. The launch page selects the live stage and moves on when it ends. Give each stage its own window; if you want two open at once, ask the team first.

Step 3: Whitelist options

Open Edit Whitelist on a Whitelist stage. Two ways to add wallets, and they combine.

Individual wallets. Paste account IDs one per line (0.0.12345). Set Mints each: how many NFTs every pasted wallet may mint in this stage. Add more wallets any time, even after publishing. Remove wallets one at a time.

Token gate. Type a collection name or paste its token address. Every current holder is added. Two ways to hand out spots:

Mode	Result
Per NFT held × N	A wallet holding 7 NFTs gets 7 × N spots. Rewards your biggest holders.
Fixed N	Every holder gets N spots, however many they hold.

It is a snapshot. Holders are recorded when you build. Press Rescan (free) right before the stage opens. Rebuilding only ever adds spots; nobody loses one.
Several collections: any one qualifies. A wallet needs at least one of the gated collections. Spots from different gates add up.
Removing a gate removes its wallets from the stage.
The pricing reviewed on September 11, 2026 includes 10,000 token-gated serials per launch across all stages, then $0.25 per 1,000. Check the Serial Budget meter and quote before you build.
Large builds run in the background with live progress. Close the dialog and come back.

How spots and the per-user limit combine. A wallet's total for the stage is its spots on this stage's whitelist, capped by Limit max mints per user if you set one.

Wallet	Holds	How it got on the list	Spots	Max per user	Can mint
A	1 NFT	token gate, per NFT held × 1	1	3	1
B	7 NFTs	token gate, per NFT held × 1	7	3	3
C	7 NFTs	token gate, per NFT held × 1	7	none	7
D	0	pasted, Mints each = 2	2	3	2
E	0	not on any list	0	3	0

Snapshot Taken is a label for collectors. It tells them the list is final so they stop asking. It does not lock the list; you can still add wallets.

Step 4: What a collector sees, and the rules at mint time

On the stage page a collector sees the countdown, the price, a Whitelist (requires at least 1 of) panel listing each gate with its spots, and an eligibility chip once a wallet is connected. The mint button shows how many they can still mint.

Rules the server enforces on every mint:

The stage must be live. Start and end are checked on the server, in UTC.
The wallet must be on the whitelist for a Whitelist stage.
One transaction is at most Max Simultaneous NFTs per mint.
Wallet total is at most its spots, capped by the per-user limit.
Anti-whale taper. A single transaction can take at most 10% of what is left in the pool. With fewer than 20 NFTs left, every mint is a single. Nobody sweeps the tail.
Minted NFTs show up on the collection's marketplace page straight away. Unminted ones stay in your wallet.

The SentX launchpad index listing current launches with their prices and mint counts — The launchpad index, where a collector finds a live launch.

Step 5: Setups that work

Holders first, then allowlist, then public. The usual shape for a 4,444 drop.

Stage	Type	Whitelist	Price	Limits
WL1 Holders	Whitelist	token gate on your previous collection, per NFT held × 1	80 HBAR	max per user 3, 3 per mint
WL2 Allowlist	Whitelist	pasted wallets from Discord and partners, Mints each 2	100 HBAR	2 per mint
Public	Public	none	120 HBAR	max per user 10, 5 per mint

Give WL1 a hard end time. Whatever it mints comes out of the same 4,444, so a generous holders' stage means a smaller public one.

Free for holders, paid for everyone else. Create a Free Claim launch on the collection for the holders (token gate, fixed 1 each) and a Mint launch with the public stage. Two launches, same collection, same minting wallet. Do not publish both at once with the same NFTs in the wallet: whichever mints first takes them.

Partner allowlist behind a private link. Whitelist stage, pasted wallets, Private stage on, Restrict access to whitelisted wallets on. Nobody outside the list sees or opens it. Send the partner the stage link.

Burn to mint. Whitelist stage with Real Time Token Gating and a per-user limit. The collector burns the qualifying NFT live and mints in the same sitting. No snapshot to keep fresh.

Step 6: Fees

Launch pricing reviewed on September 11, 2026. These reference figures are not a live quote. Review the amount shown for your operation before approving it.

Item	Fee
Create a launch (Mint)	$15 once, plus 3% of each NFT sold, taken automatically
Extra launch, same collection	$5
Free Claim launch	$35 once, no per-NFT fee
NFT Swap launch	$35 once, no per-NFT fee
Stages, whitelists, pasted wallets	free
Token-gate builds	free to 10,000 serials per launch, then $0.25 per 1,000
Date change or republish of a stage that has started and has mints	$5 fairness fee, at most once per 24 hours

The reviewed launch pricing includes free edits before a stage starts. Fees are paid in HBAR from the creator wallet. For collection creation, pinning and minting, see DreamForge costs.

Step 7: Launch-day checklist

Check the settings in DreamForge, then open the public stage links from a logged-out browser before the first stage opens. Use an eligible wallet to check restricted stages.

Before the first stage opens

Minting wallet holds the NFTs and shows approved in the launch dialog.
Each whitelist stage has wallets, and token gates were rescanned within the last day.
Limit max mints per user is set on any stage that uses Per NFT held.
Dates are right in your local time. The countdown on the stage page agrees.
If you use Restrict access to whitelisted wallets, your own wallet is on the list.
Stage links, not the collection link, are what you post.
Stages are published. The launch is published.

Questions on a specific setup

Open a ticket in the SentX Discord or the help widget on sentx.io. The team can review a launch before it goes live. SentX support has both links.

1.Step 1: How a launch is put together

2.Step 2: Stage settings

3.Step 3: Whitelist options

4.Step 4: What a collector sees, and the rules at mint time

5.Step 5: Setups that work

6.Step 6: Fees

7.Step 7: Launch-day checklist