Mint site vs NFT marketplace: which template you actually need

A mint site has one job: get a collection out of a contract and into wallets before the timer hits zero. A marketplace has a different job: keep those tokens moving after the drop.

Forge is the mint. Allowlist, public phase, a wallet cap, rarity, transfers, and a furnace UI. The live demo is forge.sitedropz.com. Heat Series 01 is the drop — you replace the art and the numbers.

Cairn is the floor that comes after. Collections, buy-now, offers, studio, activity. Demo: cairn.sitedropz.com. We wrote the launch path in how to launch an NFT marketplace.

Pick with the question you can answer in one sentence:

• "We have one collection and a date" → Forge
• "We want people listing and bidding next month" → Cairn
• "We want both, and it should look like this other site" → custom jobs

Both listings sit in pre-built websites next to the rest of the live demos. Download the zip, or if you need it under your domain with your wallet rails, use Request a custom build.