Your token's purpose and use are specific to your community. For example, you can reward your entire community or individual members with custom tokens, or offer [exclusive membership to token holders](./grant-exclusive-access-with-tokens.md). After minting your tokens, you can distribute them to community members and other users of Status via [airdrops](../how-to-airdrop-tokens-in-Status.md).
When you mint a token, you create a new and unique digital asset in the blockchain network. The blockchain charges you a transaction fee for this process. Fore more details about blockchain fees, check out [Understand network fees](../status-wallet/understand-network-fees.md).
- Community tokens you mint belong to your community and depend on it. This is why they don't appear in your [Status Wallet](../status-wallet/status-wallet-your-quick-start-guide.md) once you mint them on your community's behalf, but you can [airdrop](../how-to-airdrop-tokens-in-Status.md) them to your or any other address.
- Create an admin token using the `Not transferable (Soulbound)` and `Remote self-destruct` options. For more information, check out [Delegate admin functions to community members](./delegate-admin-functions-to-community-members.md).
- In addition to the native Ethereum network (mainnet), Status supports the Optimism and Arbitrum [layer-2 scaling solutions](../getting-started/layer-2-scaling-solutions-for-ethereum.md) to mint tokens. These scaling solutions provide faster and cheaper transactions than mainnet.
- If you [delete your community](./delete-your-status-community.md), you lose the metadata associated with your tokens, including the image and description.
| Token symbol | Choose up to four words to identify your token. Tokens minted by the same community can't have the same symbol. |
| Account | Select the wallet account you want to use to mint the token and pay the transaction fees. |
| Network | Choose the Ethereum mainnet or your preferred layer-2 network to mint your token. You can choose between Optimism and Arbitrum layer-2 networks. <br/> Layer-2 networks commonly have lower network fees. |
| Unlimited supply | Turn on this option to create an unlimited number of tokens. If you choose this option, you can't [burn your token](./burn-your-community-tokens.md) after minting. |
| Total finity supply | The total number of tokens that can be produced or minted. After minting the token, you can reduce this number by [burning the token](./burn-your-community-tokens.md). |
| Not transferable (Soulbound) | If you turn on this option, the token becomes locked to the first wallet address it is sent to, and can't be transfer to another address. |
| Remote self-destruct | When you turn on this option, you can destroy the token and make it unusable, even after you transfer it to others. |
