Adidas has an NFT apparel, Tarantino has a Pulp Fiction-inspired NFT, McDonalds has an NFT drop, TikTok will have its own NFT, NFT, NFT, NFT… Everyone is talking about NFTs. I decided to figure out where they can be bought or sold. Today we will talk about Top 13 Verified NFT Marketplaces.
Below is a list of the top NFT venues to help you immerse yourself in digital art.
OpenSea
Perhaps the largest and most overloaded NFT-art site. It has everything: video game items, collections, GIFs, music. If you want to buy a stone – you are here, if you want to sell a carpet – you are also here. If we talk about the advantages of OpenSea, then this is simplicity. Registration takes place in a few clicks, the sale is carried out in the same way. The current turnover of the marketplace, according to DappRadar, amounted to $6.5 billion. In general, OpenSea is cool, easy, and most importantly, affordable.
- Blockchain: Ethereum, Polygon, (Tezos in the plans)
- Direction: art (art), collectibles, games, sports, domains
- Buy/Sell Tokens: ETH (ERC20)
- Supported formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, SVG, MP4, WEBM, MP3, WAV, OGG, GLB, GLTF
- Fees / Entry Threshold: One-time payment on first post 2.5% + Lazy Minting
Reference:”Lazy Minting” – you publish your work, design, put a price, but the actual creation of NFT – occurs only after the purchase of the work.
Axie Marketplace
Second in the list, but not least, Axie. A platform dedicated to items from the game, whose tokens have recently grown in value. Here you can buy a cute character that can be used in all gameplay. After you get tired of it, you can sell it. If you are not interested in living beings, then there is an option to buy land and become a “farmer”. Selling gaming NFTs has already become a good way to earn money, the residents of Indonesia and the Philippines are proof of this. For the year, the turnover of the service amounted to $ 2 billion and, perhaps, this is not the limit. All transactions are carried out through the Ronin wallet, to which you need to deposit ether and convert it into the Ronin token. Further, already for “ronin”, you buy Axies and forward, towards adventures.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: Play-to-Earn
- Buy/Sell Tokens: ETH
- Fees / Entry Threshold: Purchase a character on the marketplace (price varies)
Larva Labs
In 2017, Larva Labs released a collection of pixelated images and conected them to Ethereum tokens. This is how crypto-punks were born.
After Mashable released an article about a collection of 10,000 characters in June 2017, everyone literally went crazy. The owners of crypto-punks began to resell their NFTs to each other in the desire to earn money.
Larva Labs seized the opportunity and turned their site into an NFT marketplace.
Now CryptoPunks is the place where you can buy the cheapest item for 100 Ether. And the most expensive NFT token went under the hammer for $7.5 million. Pixel men attract even large companies, relatively recently, Visa acquired punk number 7610 for $150,000.
To purchase items, you need to connect Metamask to the site and you can make a purchase.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: 3D characters
- Buy/Sell Tokens:ETH
- Commissions / entry threshold: no commission
NBA Top Shot
Ever heard of the legendary baseball cards whose owners keep them in a bank safe for the first 20 years. And in the next 20 years they try to sell them at x1328 of the original price? NBA Top Shot allows users to do the same but on a whole new level.
The marketplace is officially licensed by the NBA and offers collectors the opportunity to buy thrilling moments in real basketball games in NFT token format. All transactions are in dollars, and NFT lies on the FLOW blockchain.
- Blockchain: FLOW
- Direction: Collectible cards
- Buy/Sell Tokens: FLOW, USD, ETH, BTC, BCH, DAI, USDC
Rarible
If you want to immerse yourself in the NFT universe, then you should pay attention to Rarible. About 2 million people come here every day and want to buy or sell: a photo, music, game, domain name or meme from 2007.
The platform, built on Ethereum, is ready to show users a huge number of interesting collections and artifacts for the price of a Lamborghini or a good computer mouse. The approximate annual turnover of the marketplace is $210 million.
So if you want to spend money, you can do it here. Connect Metamask and you are an NFT investor.
One of the advantages of the platform is the user-friendly interface. Experienced collectors will feel right at home on Rarible.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: art (art), collectibles, games, sports, domains
- Buy/Sell Tokens: ETH, RARI, WETH, DAI, ATRI
- Supported formats: PNG, GIF, WEBP, MP4 or MP3
- Fees / entry threshold: 2.5% platform fees + Lazy Minting coming soon
SuperRare
The first site on my list that works in the only invite format. All NFT tokens presented on the marketplace are subject to strict requirements. As a result, the collector sees interesting high-quality content that really fits the concept of “digital art”. Actually, the developers of the project themselves claim that their platform was created for these purposes. Designed for longevity, not instant hype.
As usual, MetaMask or Formatic is required for authorization. An additional step is to create a nickname and password, which is tied to the wallet address.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: art (art)
- Buy/Sell Tokens: ETH
- Commissions / entry threshold: at the first placement 15% marketplace fee + 3% commission (hereinafter 10% + 3% respectively)
KnownOrigin
You will be welcome here If you are an artist who wants to display, advertise or sell your work to professional collectors.
KnownOrigin is a marketplace built on Ethereum with a turnover of $7 million over the past year. Like SuperRare, the project aims to provide the most interesting “exhibits” that will make the site look like a high art gallery, not a digital bazaar.
All exhibited works are stored on IPFS, which allows them to be protected at a fairly high level. The process of buying on this platform is simple to disgrace: you connect the wallet with the site and that’s it.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: art (art)
- Buy/Sell Tokens: ETH
- Supported formats: Png, Jpeg, Mp4, Webm, Glb
- Commissions / Entry Threshold: 15% on first post, 12.5% thereafter
Foundation
Possibly one of the most interesting and high quality NFT marketplaces. The developers of the project say that the platform exists to create a new creative economy of the world, where artists can evaluate their work in a new way.
If you are an artist, then you can get to the site only through an invite from a participant who is already part of the platform and also has successful transactions.
The NFTs of Edward Snowden, the popular rainbow cat Nyan Cat and Aphex Twin were sold on the project website. Thanks to large sales at auctions, the service turnover amounted to $79 million.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: art (art)
- Buy/Sell Tokens: ETH
- Commissions / entry threshold: Gas (at the rate) + platform commission 15% (for the next sale 10%)
MakersPlace
A neat boutique marketplace where the sensational artist Beeple created an NFT collection. In addition to him, musicians managed to light up on the site: T-Pain, Shakira and Tom Morello. The trading turnover of the platform does not exceed $24 million, but we know that happiness cannot be measured in money.
If you are a buyer, then during the registration process you will need to subscribe to five artists, and then you can already buy any work for the usual ETH on Metamask.
For those who want to sell their NFT creations, there is a special form on the site that you need to fill out. After filling, the moderators consider the application and give permission to be put up for sale.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: art (art)
- Buy/Sell Tokens: ETH, Credit Card
- Fees / entry threshold: gas or bank fee in case of payment by card
Nifty Gateway
Like Spotify, the Nifty Gateway marketplace offers users a curated selection of NFTs once every three weeks. Only if AI collects the playlist for you on Spotify, then The Weekend, Grimes and Eminem do it here.
In 2019, the platform was purchased by the Gemini crypto exchange. And a little later, she became an intermediary in the sale of Crossroad work from Beeple for $6.6 million in February 2021. As a result, in the first five months alone, the trading volume on the site exceeded $300 million.
To get started, you need to register on the site, and if you plan to sell NFTs, then go through KYC. Then you need to link a card or send some ETH to your deposit. Only after this the new user will be allowed to participate in the auctions.
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Direction: art (art)
BakerySwap
If you are familiar with Ethereum, then you are familiar with all its shortcomings. Well, there are none on BakerySwap, because it is built on Binance Smart Chain, which means low commissions and fast transfers.
The service is one of the smallest platforms where you can not only buy NFTs. You can also share them directly with other users. All assets can only be bought with BNB because the site is powered by BSC.
- Blockchain: Binance Smart Chain BSC
- Direction: General
- Buy/Sell Tokens: BNB
- Fees / entry threshold: 0.30% for any transaction
Binance NFT Marketplace
You probably won’t find the marketplace from Binance yet in the ranking of top sites, but only because it is still young and completely green. We know that the largest crypto exchange is behind the project. Its resource allows you to send rockets into space, which means that reaching the tops is a matter of time.
The advantages of the site also revolve around Binance’s convenient ecosystem of projects with their cool UX. After one registration, you will get access not only to the NFT platform, but also to the exchange and the academy of traders. Unlike other marketplaces, Binance does not put forward complex requirements for its users. As a result, it helps them attract digital art creators instead of alienating them.
- Blockchain: Binance Chain
- Direction:General
- Buy/Sell Tokens: BNB, BUSD, ETH
- Supported formats: any images, audio, video and other files.
- Commissions / entry threshold: initially 10%, subsequent 5%
Solanart
One of the main discoveries of this year was the marketplace on the Solana blockchain. At a frantic pace, the marketplace filled with collections of monkeys, lizards and other animals that flew away at a price of 100 SOL and more.
A big plus of Solanart is its blockchain. Only $100 should be enough for you for the rest of your life for all commissions, which cannot be said about marketplaces on Ethereum.
To buy an item, you need to install a Phantom or Solflare wallet on your browser, upload tokens to it and connect to the site.
- Blockchain: Solana
- Direction: General
- Buy/Sell Tokens: SOL
- Features: The creator needs to fill out a questionnaire
- Fees / entry threshold: 3% per transaction
Frequently asked Questions
What is NFT?
NFTs are a type of cryptographic tokens, each copy of which is unique (specific) and cannot be exchanged or replaced by another similar token, although tokens are usually fungible in nature. Read the complete NFT guide.
How to make money on NFTs?
The main way is selling. To a greater extent, everything depends not only on how your NFT is better than others, but on how well your marketing campaign worked, how large your audience is (for example, fans) or, perhaps, your NFT has a practical application (industry of blockchain games, services and applications).
Where is the best place to sell and buy NFTs?
At the moment, there are a large number of NFT platforms for buying and selling. Somewhere the tokens are divided by topic, somewhere there is limited access to the platform or thorough checks before publication. Monetka Blog has compiled for you a brief description of 13 proven NFT marketplaces.
Disclaimer: This article is not investment advice. Assess the risks yourself before making any investment decisions.
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