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Compressed NFT (cNFT)

Also known ascNFT
An NFT stored as a leaf in an on-chain Merkle tree via State Compression, reducing minting cost by ~1,000-5,000x. Only the tree root hash is stored on-chain; leaf data is indexed off-chain. A 1M cNFT collection costs ~50 SOL vs ~12,000 SOL for standard NFTs. Created via the Bubblegum program; transfers require Merkle proofs.
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