Announcing Candy Machine v3

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Today, the Metaplex Foundation is excited to announce an all-new version of Candy Machine, v3. This is the third major iteration of the leading minting and distribution program for launching NFT collections on Solana. With this update, developers gain more flexibility and control over their minting contracts. 

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To add more flexibility to Candy Machine, the program has been separated into two separate contracts. One contract will hold all the minting logic for the Candy Machine, and the other will hold all the access controls. With this separation, most changes you make to your Candy Machine will occur in the access control contract, called Candy Guard. By doing this, you can change the Candy Guard contract without breaking your Candy Machine minting logic. 

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The Candy Guard contract’s modular framework was built with flexibility in mind. The contract is prepackaged with stand-alone modules, making it easy to adapt the contract to specific NFT use cases. One module that is provided is the allow-list guard, which gives you the ability to specify the mint date and discount price. In addition to the prepackaged modules provided, the contract is highly adaptable, and makes it easy for developers to add custom access controls and other features. 

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