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# How Tigermint Works

Three ideas explain the whole platform. The short version is up top, and the technical detail is at the bottom for anyone who wants to check our work.

## 1. You pull blind

When you pull a card, you don't know which one you're getting. The artwork and rarity stay hidden until your mint is confirmed on the blockchain and the card is revealed. There is no way to peek ahead and cherry-pick the rare ones, for you or for anyone else.

## 2. The order is locked and fair

When a creator launches a collection, every card is shuffled into a fixed order before the first pull:

* The sequence cannot be changed or rigged after launch.
* Nobody can predict it, including the Tigermint team.
* Each card's rarity only becomes public once that card is actually minted.

The rares are spread through the deck in an order nobody can see. You find out what you got at the same moment everyone else does.

## 3. You own real NFTs

Every pull mints a standard TON NFT straight to your wallet:

* It's yours, held by your wallet, not by Tigermint.
* It shows up in TON wallets and explorers like any other NFT.
* You can hold it, transfer it, or sell it on TON marketplaces.

## Under the hood

For the technically curious, here is how the guarantees above are actually enforced:

* **The shuffle** is deterministic, seeded by the collection plus a server-side secret. Without the secret, the order can't be computed from public data, so nobody can map rarities to positions in advance. With it, every server instance derives the exact same deck, so the art you reveal always matches the metadata your wallet fetches.
* **Every mint carries a signed voucher.** The platform signs the collection address, your wallet, the number of pulls, the exact phase price, a one-time nonce, and an expiry. The contract verifies that signature before minting. Vouchers can't be reused, replayed on another collection, or repriced.
* **Supply, per-wallet limits, pricing, and payment splits live in the smart contract**, not in our web app. The creator's share settles to their wallet in the same transaction as your mint.
* The full contract source and code hashes are published on the [Smart Contracts](/tigermint-docs/transparency/contracts.md) page, so you can verify any deployed collection yourself.

Ready to try it? Head to [Minting & Reveals](/tigermint-docs/for-collectors/minting.md).