Creating assets

Transaction Authorizer: Any account with sufficient Algo balance

Create assets using either the SDKs or goal. When using the SDKs supply all creation parameters. With goal, managing the various addresses associated with the asset must be done after executing an asset creation. See Modifying an Asset in the next section for more details on changing addresses for the asset.

# Account 1 creates an asset called `rug` with a total supply
# of 1000 units and sets itself to the freeze/clawback/manager/reserve roles
sp = algod_client.suggested_params()
txn = transaction.AssetConfigTxn(
    sender=acct1.address,
    sp=sp,
    default_frozen=False,
    unit_name="rug",
    asset_name="Really Useful Gift",
    manager=acct1.address,
    reserve=acct1.address,
    freeze=acct1.address,
    clawback=acct1.address,
    url="https://path/to/my/asset/details",
    total=1000,
    decimals=0,
)

# Sign with secret key of creator
stxn = txn.sign(acct1.private_key)
# Send the transaction to the network and retrieve the txid.
txid = algod_client.send_transaction(stxn)
print(f"Sent asset create transaction with txid: {txid}")
# Wait for the transaction to be confirmed
results = transaction.wait_for_confirmation(algod_client, txid, 4)
print(f"Result confirmed in round: {results['confirmed-round']}")

# grab the asset id for the asset we just created
created_asset = results["asset-index"]
print(f"Asset ID created: {created_asset}")

const suggestedParams = await algodClient.getTransactionParams().do();
const txn = algosdk.makeAssetCreateTxnWithSuggestedParamsFromObject({
  from: creator.addr,
  suggestedParams,
  defaultFrozen: false,
  unitName: 'rug',
  assetName: 'Really Useful Gift',
  manager: creator.addr,
  reserve: creator.addr,
  freeze: creator.addr,
  clawback: creator.addr,
  assetURL: 'http://path/to/my/asset/details',
  total: 1000,
  decimals: 0,
});

const signedTxn = txn.signTxn(creator.privateKey);
await algodClient.sendRawTransaction(signedTxn).do();
const result = await algosdk.waitForConfirmation(
  algodClient,
  txn.txID().toString(),
  3
);

const assetIndex = result['asset-index'];
console.log(`Asset ID created: ${assetIndex}`);

goal asset create --creator <address> --total 1000 --unitname <unit-name> --asseturl "https://path/to/my/asset/details" --decimals 0   -d data

See also

Anatomy of an Asset Creation Transaction