Blockchain technology is still relatively new, but it is rapidly changing how businesses are run and how people interact with them. Blockchain companies are disrupting business as we know it by providing a way to trace transactions on a digital ledger, which is secure and transparent. Blockchain technology is being used in many industries including finance, healthcare, logistics, and more. The applications for blockchain technology are limitless.
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: New York City, New York
Headquartered out of New York, and founded in 2017, OpenSea is the largest NFT minting Web 3.0 platform. A gas-free platform, where you can buy, trade, and sell NFT’s. With an easy-to-use process, the platform provides 150 types of payment platforms. OpenSea allows for investors to find unique NFT’s and its prominence plays a key role as being a top place to trade NFT’s. Their transaction volumes range in the $354 million dollar range.
- Founded: 2020
- Headquarters: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rarible is a software/platform in the digital space, that allows for artists, and creators to sell custom crypto assets, that represent their digital work. Rarible is a distributed network that allows for trading assets, without the involvement of middlemen. The gas-fees are some of the lowest in the industry, due to the platform’s support of Tezos.
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: Rogaland, Norway
SuperRare is an NFT marketplace that focuses on building a marketplace for digital creators. The site focuses on art, videos, and 3D images. For primary sales the marketplace charges a rate of 15% and 10% for secondary sales. With a simple interface and is available using the Ethereum blockchain.
- Founded: 2020
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Async Art is an NFT marketplace that focuses on programmable art. On their platform you can trade, create, and collect programmable digital art that is split into ‘layers’. The marketplace allows for different artists to collaborate and sell their art to legitimate buyers. Async Art’s higher fees are in relation to the quality of the platform. And artists can expect legitimate buyers.
- Founded: 2018
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Founded on the Ethereum platform and backed by Gemini, Nifty Gateway looks to mint digital art/ verified and curated drops. The platform has had some of the biggest NFT sales, specifically BEEPLE crossroad which was sold for $91.8 million, and NFT’s such as PAK. It has features like ‘Open Edition’, which increases scarcity. You can trade and buy the NFT’s with a number of different options including, fiat currency, and various cryptocurrencies.
- Founded: 2020
- Headquarters: New York City, New York
Proton Mint is another top NFT minting platform. It does not charge any gas fees for minting NFT’s and is very cheap for any incremental NFT’s that might be produced. With an easy interface, the platform supports a number of blockchains including BSC, Ethereum, and Stellar. Offering a wide-rage of NFT’s Proton mint has become one the most well-known
- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: Malta
Binance is one of the largest crypto platforms. Its NFT platform provides a ETH backed service, where users can buy NFT’s in a range of crypto, stablecoins, and fiat. While the platform has had issues with being artist friendly, it has a large marketplace, and low fees, that make it competitive, and attract many users to its platform. Binance is increasingly trying to become the low cost alternative to the broader art-NFT market.
- Founded: 2016
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Makersplace is focused mainly on established artists, and helping them sell their digital NFT’s. Artists digitally sign their art, which provides provenance and therefore, the platform is increasingly becoming a top place to find valuable art. The trade-off for the scarce and rare NFT’s is that the platform at times can be expensive. Prominent artists such as Jose Delbo have featured their work on the platform.
- Founded: 2018
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
One of the oldest NFT marketplace for art and other general NFT’s, Known Origin focuses on art and photography focused NFT’s. It offers rare collectibles, which customers can bid on during ‘drops’. This ensures both scarcity and quality. Artists are vetted in a thorough manner to ensure exclusivity. Backed by Ethereum, the platform offers a range of methods to transact in their services. The primary feature of the platform is its ability to provide end-to-end service.
- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Foundation is unique because it is a platform run by artists for artists. It provides a community oriented platform, where a select number of artists are invited to present their art work. Artists earn 85% of their sale value and in order to sell your piece, you have to be invited by another artist. This leads to artwork that is often authentic and valuable such as Nyan Cat. They are not limited to artists but also provide a platform for musicians etc. They have transacted in over $40 million in transactions.
- Founded: 2020
- Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
Another NFT marketplace founded by artists, Zora allows users to buy, sell, create and trade NFT’s suchs as art, music, animation, text, and media. An invite-only platform, backed by Ethereum, the platform focuses on empowering artists. The platform offers a unique proposition that it allows users to sell both physical and digital creations. For example, collectible shoes are often sold with a digital NFT footprint, allowing the user to ensure authenticity. This essentially allows users to run their personal auction house.
- Founded: 2018
- Headquarters: Singapore
Headquartered out of Singapore, Mintable allows artists, musicians, game and video makers, allows users to, buy, trade, and create NFT’s on their platform. Backed by ETH and ImmutableX, the platform allows users. With an easy-to-use platform, and backed by Mark Cuban, the gas-free platform, allows users to a range of methods to produce their NFT.
- Founded: 2022
- Headquarters: Singapore
Launched by artists, NFT Launchpad is a marketplace built by artists, to support major NFT projects such as Punk Dogs, Great Ape Society, and Lazy Goats club. Integrated into Binances smart chain, and Polygon. The platform supports multiple formats. On the downside it only supports a single mode of payment.
- Founded: 2020
Based on the Binance Network, bakery swap is an easy to use, all-in-one NFT marketplace. Users can, mint, sell and trade NFT’s on its platforms. Users can sign up using MetaMask and use BnB for their NFT’s. They are new the art NFT world, and feature a lot of indie artists. Their charges are on average lower than others and that makes them attractive to artists that are newly on the scene.