Everything collectors and artists want to know about GalleryMint.
Bob Ross painted over 1,000 canvases in his lifetime. When he died, a legal battle unfolded over his name, his likeness, and the rights to his work. Many people close to him declined to participate in a documentary about it — out of fear of legal repercussions. The corporation that had managed his business ended up controlling virtually everything.
The core problem: Bob painted. Other people controlled the business. And when he was gone, he had no way to prove what was his, or to ensure that future sales of his work would benefit the people he cared about.
NFTs solve this. Every edition minted on GalleryMint is a permanent, unforgeable record on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain — tied to your name, your artwork, your wallet. No corporation can take that. No business partner can dispute it. No estate battle can erase it. The blockchain is the certificate, the receipt, and the provenance record all in one — and it lives as long as the internet does.
Bob Ross didn't have this option. You do.
A digital edition is a limited-print for the internet age. Just like a numbered lithograph — "Edition 3 of 50" — a digital edition is a unique, numbered token that proves you own a specific copy of an artwork. Only a set number can ever exist.
Unlike a physical print, your edition lives on the blockchain, so it can never be lost, faked, or separated from its provenance record.
You can screenshot the Mona Lisa, too. That doesn't make you the owner.
Edition #3 of 50 is the signature. The blockchain is the certificate. Anyone can look at a painting — only one person owns it. Your edition number and the transaction record are yours, cryptographically, forever.
Two ways:
At an art fair or gallery: Download the GalleryMint app, open the Collect tab, and tap your phone to the NFC card next to the artwork. Your edition is minted instantly.
In the app: Browse artists and artworks in the Discover section. Tap any artwork and use the Buy Edition button to purchase directly.
The NFC card contains a cryptographic chip that proves you were physically present and tapped that specific card. Think of it like a wax seal on a letter — it's unforgeable proof that ties the physical moment to your digital edition.
Each card is unique. The chip uses military-grade cryptography that can't be cloned or faked. It's the same technology used in passports and bank cards.
You don't need to set one up or know anything about crypto. The GalleryMint app creates a wallet for you the moment you install it, and you can start collecting straight away — no exchange account, nothing to configure.
Write down your 12 words on day one. That wallet has a 12-word recovery phrase, and your phone is the only place it exists. GalleryMint does not hold a copy, cannot reset it, and cannot recover your collection for you. That is what makes the editions genuinely yours rather than ours — but it also means that if you lose your phone without those words, the collection is gone. You'll find them under Settings. Write them on paper and keep them somewhere safe; don't photograph them or save them in a notes app.
If you already use Bitcoin Cash, you can export your collection to any compatible wallet at any time.
Your ownership record lives on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain — not on our servers. Even if GalleryMint disappeared tomorrow, your edition still exists on-chain and can be verified by any blockchain explorer or compatible wallet.
That's the point of blockchain: the record doesn't belong to any company. It belongs to the network.
This is also why the 12-word recovery phrase matters. The record surviving us is only useful to you if you can still reach it, and those words are what let you do that.
Collect what you love — that's always been the right reason to collect art. A first-edition Charizard Pokémon card sold for $420,000. A digital artwork by Beeple sold at Christie's for $69 million. People have always paid for verified, limited-edition things they love.
The blockchain makes your ownership verifiable and permanent, which is what gives limited editions their lasting value. Early collectors of any art form have historically done well — but the primary reason to collect is that you love the work.
Yes. You can export any edition to your own Bitcoin Cash wallet, and from there it is entirely yours — keep it, give it away, or sell it to whoever you like.
A dedicated resale marketplace is in the works, and we'll announce it here when it's live.
No. OpenSea is an Ethereum marketplace, and GalleryMint editions live on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain instead — chosen because minting costs a fraction of a cent there rather than several dollars.
Your edition is still fully yours and fully transferable; it just moves through Bitcoin Cash wallets rather than Ethereum ones.
Minting your work creates a permanent, public record that you made it — with a timestamp, your name, and a provenance chain that can never be altered. It's the difference between a handshake and a signed contract.
It also opens a new revenue stream. Digital editions give collectors something they can't get from a photo — a verified, numbered piece that proves their connection to your work.
You upload your artwork, set edition limits and pricing, and GalleryMint handles everything else — the NFC cards, the minting, the collector experience, and payouts to your Bitcoin Cash address.
At an art fair, you place an NFC card next to your artwork. Collectors tap and collect. In-app purchases let collectors buy editions anytime, anywhere.
Automatically, and usually the same day — not at the end of the month. Set a Venmo username to be paid in US dollars, or a Bitcoin Cash address to be paid in BCH at the exchange rate locked in when the sale happened. You can set either or both in your account settings.
GalleryMint's share is always 5%, and it never changes. Apple takes its own cut of anything sold inside an app and sets that rate itself — currently 30%, which leaves you 65%. Apple charges smaller developers 15% instead, and your share rises to 80% whenever that lower rate applies to us.
Your exact split is shown on every sale in your dashboard. There are no monthly fees, and GalleryMint does not take a cut of anything you sell outside the app.
You keep your copyright in full. Uploading work to GalleryMint transfers no ownership and no intellectual property rights, to us or to anyone else. You can keep selling the same piece as prints, originals, or anything else, anywhere you like.
What you give us is permission to show it: a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display your work in the app, on this website, and in material promoting the platform. It exists so we can actually show your piece to collectors, and it ends when you remove the artwork.
What a collector gets is the right to display your work for themselves, share images of it, keep it in any wallet they control, and sell, loan, or pass on the edition if they want to — the same things they could do with a print they bought from you. Those display rights travel with the edition to whoever gets it next.
What they never get is the right to print it, put it on merchandise, use it commercially, make derivative works from it, or claim they made it. Selling the edition on does not change any of that.
The full wording is in our Terms of Service, section 6.
Most artists on GalleryMint offer between 100 and 1,000 editions per artwork. Fewer editions = greater scarcity = higher perceived value. More editions = accessible to more collectors.
Think of it like a print run: a 50-edition run feels exclusive; a 500-edition run feels like a broad collector series. There's no wrong answer — it depends on the artwork and your audience.
GalleryMint mints editions as CashToken NFTs on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Bitcoin Cash was chosen for its low transaction fees (fractions of a cent per mint) and its long-running, battle-tested network.
Each edition is a real on-chain token — not a pointer to a database record. It's yours permanently.