create-a-token.md

description
Create a token with a name, symbol, supply, and memo.

Create a token

{% swagger baseUrl="https://hedera-serverless-consensus.vercel.app" path="/api/token" method="post" summary="Create new token" %} {% swagger-description %} This endpoint allows you to create a token with a name, symbol, supply, and memo.

The memo is an important feature to allow linking but not exclusive to: Hedera Topic IDs (dynamic NFTs), decentralised identity (DIDs), or IPFS (dStorage) images/files. {% endswagger-description %}

{% swagger-parameter in="header" name="Authentication" type="string" required="true" %} The

API_SECRET_KEY

from th e client's environment variables. {% endswagger-parameter %}

{% swagger-parameter in="body" name="symbol" required="true" %} Symbol of the token {% endswagger-parameter %}

{% swagger-parameter in="body" name="name" required="true" %} Name of the token {% endswagger-parameter %}

{% swagger-parameter in="body" name="supply" type="Number" required="true" %} Number of tokens to mint, whole. {% endswagger-parameter %}

{% swagger-parameter in="body" name="memo" %} Attached memo to a token, for linking to external content or for dynamic NFT purposes. {% endswagger-parameter %}

{% swagger-response status="200" description="New token that has been minted, capability to send to send to accounts." %}

{
    "data": {
        "name": "Matt token",
        "symbol": "MATT",
        "memo": "abc",
        "reference": "basic.fungible",
        "supply": "100",
        "supplyWithDecimals": "100000000",
        "tokenId": "0.0.2839273"
    }
}

{% endswagger-response %} {% endswagger %}