# Token Gating

Token gating is **a common tool used by NFT project teams to create value for community members**. Essentially, token gating allows projects to reward people who hold their NFTs by creating exclusive content, events, and other benefits available only to token holders.

Is a **mechanism** where **access** to **certain content or benefits** associated with an **NFT** is **restricted** based on whether the **user holds a token from your Collection**. This can be seen as a way to reward and incentivize long-term holders of an NFT, as they may be given exclusive access to features or experiences that are not available to others. Token gating provides a way to create unique and exclusive experiences for NFT holders, while also adding value to the underlying tokens themselves.

Using our tools you'll be able to **let** your **users** (owner of NFTs from your collection) **access exclusive content**, exclusive Airdrops, etc. You can even **stratify access** to content based on whether users are owners of NFTs from one deployed project or another.

You can create a general token gating landing page as well as individual items. Every content gated item created has a public description as well as a private information.

This is **temporarily offered** for **free** for everyone to use.

We offer two different free hosting:

* Mintpad hosting: Use a custom subdomain on Mintpad.
* Use your platform: Add our widget to your existing website.

You can see a token gating page example below:

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Check a live example at <https://pandas-penguins.nfts2.me/gated/script/>