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With NFTs exploding in popularity—and price—we take a look at the marketplaces where you can buy and sell these unique digital art tokens.
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique crypto tokens that are linked to digital content, such as artwork.
A number of NFT marketplaces have sprung up where users can buy and sell NFTs.
- Opensea
OpenSea is the original peer-to-peer NFT marketplace, and far and away the largest. At the time of writing, it has a total trading volume of over $6.5 billion (according to analytics platform DappRadar), offering NFTs of everything from in-game items and collectibles, to artwork, music, GIFs, and more.
- Axie Marketplace
NFT-powered video game Axie Infinity plays host to the second-largest NFT marketplace, with a total trading volume of more than $2.1 billion on Dappradar. It trades exclusively in Axies: cute, Pokémon-like digital pets which players can buy and trade on the Axie Marketplace.
- CryptoPunks/Larva Labs
One of the earliest examples of NFTs on the Ethereum network, CryptoPunks is a series of 10,000 randomly generated characters with a pixel art aesthetic and unique attributes. While they could originally be grabbed for free, the only way you can own one today is to buy one.
- NBA Top Shots
One of the first NFT series to gain traction with the wider public, NBA Top Shot is a set of digital trading cards featuring NBA video highlight clips. Once you purchase a pack, clips are stored in your secure, encrypted blockchain-verified wallet, where you can view them or re-sell them on the NBA Top Shot Marketplace.
- Rarible
One of the leading NFT marketplaces on Ethereum, Rarible is a community-owned platform that showcases a wide range of digital art and collectibles. It currently has the fifth-highest all-time trading volume according to Dappradar, with $210 million having changed hands.
- SuperRare
SuperRare positions itself as a slightly higher-end alternative to Rarible; where Rarible's interface bombards you with a dizzying array of flickering GIFs and live auctions, SuperRare has an altogether more pared-back, minimalist appearance.
- Atomic Market
AtomicMarket is a smart contract which makes it easy to build NFT marketplaces using the AtomicAssets NFT standard.
- Foundation
Foundation is an application that facilitates live auctions for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Here, users can bid on digital artwork by NFT artists using ETH. NFTs can then be stored in a Metamask wallet and resold on other NFT marketplaces like OpenSea or Nifty Gateway
- Aavegotchi
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- Decentraland
Decentraland is a software running on Ethereum that seeks to incentivize a global network of users to operate a shared virtual world. Decentraland users can buy and sell digital real estate, while exploring, interacting and playing games within this virtual world.
