Popular NFT Platforms
Chintan Dave
General Manager - AI CERTs| Director of Certification | Director- Blockchain | Certified Blockchain Trainer and Solutions Architect | Author | Speaker | Trainer | AI & Blockchain Advisor
If you’re looking to create, sell, or buy non-fungible tokens (NFTs), your best bet would be to do it on one of the many NFT marketplaces. By creating and minting an NFT on a marketplace, you won’t need to know how to code a smart contract or need any technical knowledge at all. This is a major breakthrough that allows any person to create and mint NFTs. Of course, you’re still going to need to get on the blockchain because NFTs are blockchain assets.?
Following are the popular NFT Platforms.
OpenSea
Website: Opensea.io
OpenSea is the largest and most popular NFT marketplace. It also claims to be the first as well. As of this writing, OpenSea features 15.5 million NFTs and has sold $354 million of NFTs. We find OpenSea to be the easiest to navigate and most user-friendly when creating, selling, and buying NFTs. It’s great for beginners who are just getting into NFTs. Collectors can also find a wide variety of NFTs on OpenSea, including the following:
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Rarible
Website: Rarible.com
Like OpenSea, Rarible is user-friendly and easy to navigate, and you can create, sell, and buy various types of NFTs. Rarible has incorporated some social media elements into its site, such as a “follow” feature, allowing users to follow NFT creators and get notified when the creator drops new NFTs. Rarible also created the RARI token, which is the native governance token of the NFT marketplace, designed to reward active platform users with a voice on the platform’s future. Rarible takes a 5 percent commission from every sale, charging 2.5 percent to both the buyer and the seller.
Pros
? Easy to create, sell, and buy NFTs ? Vibrant community
Cons
Nifty Gateway
Website: Niftygateway.com
NFTs are called nifties on Nifty Gateway. The marketplace sells nifties of only established digital artists, celebrities, and brands. For example, Nifty Gateway featured drops by Beeple, Deadmau5, Eminem, and Paris Hilton.
Nifty Gateway portrays itself as a high-end marketplace, like an exclusive art gallery. Creators need to apply and go through an extensive vetting process to sell on Nifty Gateway.
Nifty Gateway is one of the rare marketplaces where you can purchase NFTs with a credit or debit card, which opens up nifties to collectors not familiar with cryptocurrency.
Pros
? Can buy nifties with a credit or debit card ? Easy and intuitive to use
Cons
SuperRare
Website: Superrare.co
As the name implies, SuperRare sells only single-edition (1 of 1) NFTs. Additionally, only digital art NFTs are sold on SuperRare, which are not available for purchase anywhere else. super rare describes itself as “Instagram meets Christie’s. A new way to interact with art, culture, and collecting on the Internet!”
Super rare has built a strong community, and it also tracks the top collectors and trending artists. Like Nifty Gateway, SuperRare has an elegant design. Addi- tionally, an editorial section of the website features a few digital art-related articles each day, akin to a glossy art magazine.
Pros
? Rare, single-edition NFTs ? Easy and intuitive to use ? Strong community
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Wax (Atomic Hub)
Website: Wax.atomichub.io
Atomic Hub is based on the WAX blockchain, which is entirely separate from the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. WAX is not as popular as ETH, but WAX transaction fees are minimal compared to ETH gas fees. Additionally, WAX uses proof-of-stake validation, which means that it has negligible effects on the environment. Atomic Hub is most notable for selling packs of NFTs, like a pack of baseball cards, where you don’t know what you’re going to get inside the pack. Similarly, NFTs found in packs have different levels of rareness. For example, Topps sells packs of Major League Baseball NFTs, which are traded on an active secondary market.
Pros
? No ETH gas fees
? Environmentally friendly
? Only 2 percent fee on sales of NFTs
Cons
Foundation
Website: Foundation.app
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Pros
? Nice variety of quality art NFTs
? Active community of artists and collectors
Cons
NBA Top Shot
Website: NBAtopshot.com
Pros
? Awesome NBA video NFTs
? Environmentally friendly
? Can purchase NFTs with your credit or debit card
Cons
VeVe
Website: Veve.me
Veve is a mobile app, available on the App Store and Google Play. Veve sells only 3D image NFTs of major brands. For example, Veve features NFTs of Ghostbusters, Batman, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. You can manipulate the size and angle of the 3D images from the NFTs and place them in other apps, add them to photos, and share them on social media.
Pros
? High-quality 3D files
? NFTs of some popular brands
? Don’t need cryptocurrency to buy NFTs
Cons
Known Origin
Website: Knownorigin.io
Known Origin prides itself as an artist-driven marketplace, which is limited to NFTs of digital art. It features a primary marketplace of new art NFT drops and a secondary marketplace where collectors can sell NFTs they own. Artists need to apply in order to create and sell NFTs on the marketplace. Know Origin tries “to ensure a very high level of due diligence” when selecting artists for the platform.
Pros
? High-quality art NFTs
? Elegant, user-friendly interface
Cons
Myth Market
Website: Myth.market
Myth Market focuses on trading card NFTs and is actually just a hub for five distinct markets: GPK.Market (Garbage Pail Kids trading cards) GoPepe.Market (trading cards featuring the Pepe meme) Heroes.Market (Blockchain Heroes trading cards)
Pros
? No ETH gas fees
? Environmentally friendly
Cons
You can only buy and sell NFTs offered on each submarket.
Wrap-Up
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3 年great information sir! thank you! keep sharing ??
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3 年Great list, supporting information and comparisons. Thanks for sharing Chintan - Blockchain Trainer
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