After we’ve learned How to buy NFTs, let’s now see where you can buy NFTs. With a predicted NFT market-cap reaching $35 billion in 2022 and a staggering $80 billion by 2025, there is no shortage of opportunities in the NFT space. We’ve collected the 30 most important and promising NFT marketplaces in 2022. They all focus on different categories, such as digital art, music, sports collectibles, or virtual worlds.
Where to Buy NFTs
- OpenSea
- Crypto.com
- CryptoPunks
- Decentraland
- Binance NFT
- Gamechangers
- Enjin Marketplace
- Rarible
- Foundation
- SuperRare
- NBA Top Shot
- Solanart
- Nifty Gateway
- Axie Infinity
- The Sandbox
- BakerySwap
- LooksRare
- MakersPlace
- KnownOrigin
- Sorare
- Mintable
- Zora
- AsyncArt
- Mobox
- Theta Drop
- Magic Eden
- Venly
- Zeptagram
- Valuables
- Portion
On some NFT marketplaces you can buy an NFT for a set price, but usually the NFTs are sold through auctions.
OpenSea claims to be the world’s first and – with a monthly trading volume surpassing $3.5 billion – largest NFT marketplace. Founded in 2017 by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah, Opensea offers a modern and easy-to-use NFT marketplace for Collectibles, Domain Names, Music, Photography, Sports, Trading Cards, Utilities and Virtual Worlds. Buyers can bid on NFTs in auctions or purchase NFTs for a fixed price. The NFTs are filterable by price and rarity, stats rank NFT sellers by volume, the floor price and the number of items sold. OpenSea supports the Ethereum, Polygon and Klatyn blockchains.
Categories: Digital Art, Collectibles, Domains, Music, Photography, Sports, Trading Cards, Utility, Virtual Worlds
Among all NFT Marketplaces, Crypto.com is a crypto ecosystem of its own. With blockchain, an exchange, crypto debit cards, earn programs, crypto loans and an NFT marketplace, crypto fans can find everything their hearts desire here. With over 200 cryptocurrencies and trading fees of just 0.4 percent, the crypto exchange is above average. And the in-house Crypto.com Coin also seems to have established itself among the largest digital coins by market capitalization.
Categories: Digital Art, Celebrities, Gaming, Sport, Music, Crypto, Cross Chain
Released in June 2017 by Larva Labs, CryptoPunks are the first non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. Currently, the cheapest Punk trades for 15 ETH, which is equivalent to about $41,000, while the most expensive Punks are worth millions. In total, there are 10,000 CryptoPunks, and the project has generated a total of around 184 thousand ETH worth about $508 million.
Categories: Video Games, MetaverseArt
Decentraland is an Ethereum-based blockchain platform where users can buy, cultivate and monetize virtual properties. The currency for these virtual property acquisition activities is thereby the ERC-20 token MANA. Decentraland (MANA) was developed as a so-called virtual reality. It is a world that can be compared to Second Life. The intention of the developers was to create an artistic online medium for entertainment as well as business opportunities. Thus, the Decentralands virtual world addresses both individuals and businesses.
Categories: Video Games, MetaverseArt
Once again, the largest crypto exchange in the world convinces that it can directly implement new trends in the crypto sector into new products for its customers. As one of the biggest NFT Marketplaces, Binance brings all the features you are used to from other marketplaces. An overview of all NFTs for sale, including filters and sorting functions.
Categories: Video games, MetaverseArt
Gamechangers.ai issues Non-Fungible License Tokens (NFLTs), that enable startups and companies to create powerful communities by incentivizing supporters for the completion of microtasks. By introducing a new NFT ecosystem and marketplace, Gamechangers enables companies to tap into the power of the crowd through microtasks by granting licenses of various kinds in exchange for rewards such as revenue sharing and commissions.
Categories: NFLTs, Startups, Microtasks, Company Builder, Launchpad
Enjin was launched as a gaming platform, but was eventually transformed into one of the largest NFT marketplaces in 2017. At the end of 2017, 18.9 million US dollars were raised in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). From a functional point of view, Enjin is a kind of library for interfaces and software development kits (SDKs). It thus offers users the corresponding options for creating NFTs, tokenizing assets, or developing their own cryptocurrencies based on ENJ for games or applications, for example.
Categories: Video games, MetaverseArt
Similar to OpenSea, Rarible is an NFT platform where digital items can be traded. Those who want to buy and sell NFT use a platform and blockchain technology to do so. What makes Rarible so special? The NFT platform was founded in early 2020 by Alex Salnikov and Alexei Falin in Moscow and is “community-owned”. There is another special feature: the focus of this platform is on digital art.
Categories: Digital Art, Photography, Music, Games, MetaverseArt, Memes
Launched in early 2021, Foundation is primarily aimed at artists who don’t want to get lost in the randomness of large NFT collections on other NFT marketplaces. In order to be able to sell NFTs on Foundation as an artist, you first have to be invited by a member of the community – this is an attempt to keep the quality high. Foundation is paid for with ETH. For artists, however, there are hefty fees; they receive only 85 percent of the sales price.
Category: Digital Art
If you are an art fan and also interested in cryptocurrencies, SuperRare might be the right place for you. The NFT platform allows anyone to collect and sell digital art. Many of the world’s most famous digital artists make their works available for purchase here. RARE is the token that is linked to the marketplace.
Category: Digital Art
Basically, NBA Top Shot is a trading card game, like many of us surely remember from childhood. The Top Shot cards, called “Moments”, are limited NFT collectibles of basketball players that can be traded and exchanged online with other collectors. Each moment is only available for a limited time and has an individual serial number.
Category: Sports Collectibles
Solanart describes itself as the “first and largest fully-fledged NFT marketplace on Solana“, the well-known blockchain – and main Ethereum competitor. Just like on the other NFT marketplaces, you get quick and easy access to digital collectibles to explore, buy and sell NFTs.
The NFT platform Nifty Gateway also makes countless NFT artworks available for digital trading. Behind Nifty Gateway are two entrepreneurs who are no strangers to the cryptocurrency world: the Winklevoss brothers. They launched this NFT platform with their venture Gemini LLC.
Categories: Digital Art, Collectibles
Designed by the Vietnamese startup Sky Mavis, Axie Infinity is an online card game and one of the most popular blockchain games and NFT marketplaces. More than a million users are active on the platform every day. They buy land and equipment in form of NFTs, feed, breed and train their “Axies”, let them compete against each other in battle or sell them, and earn cryptos in the process.
Category: Video Game
The Sandbox is an Ethereum-based metaverse and gaming ecosystem where users can create, share, and monetize in-world assets and gaming experiences. In The Sandbox, users have absolute ownership of their in-world creations.
Categories: Video Games, MetaverseArt
BakerySwap is a DeFi protocol that enables transactions without the need for an order book. It is a decentralized crypto exchange (DEX) that uses Automatic Market Maker (AMM). It operates on the Binance Smart Chain, which makes it of great functionality for Binance. The exchange enables transactions via the BEP2 and BEP20 tokens. These tokens support Ethereum’s ERC20 token standards.
Categories: Digital Art
LooksRare is a recently opened NFT marketplace that aims to index all NFT collections on all NFT marketplaces on the Ethereum blockchain. The LooksRare marketplace was launched by two anonymous co-founders, namely Zodd and Guts, and claims it was developed “by NFT people for NFT people”. The blog announcement says the LooksRare team is “fed up with vendors not finding a platform, and with decision makers who put their business above the community and seek an IPO instead of supporting the community that got them there.”
Categories: Digital Art, MetaverseArt
MakersPlace claims to be “the premier market to discover, collect and invest in truly rare and authentic digital artworks, by the world’s leading artists and creators”. The main focus of Makersplace is exclusive digital art (but there are also less exclusive artworks available). The NFTs are based on the ETH-blockchain. The impressive list of creators with NFTs sold on this marketplace includes names like Yura Miron, Silvio Veira, Dmitri Cherniak, Dreamonaut and Frenetik Void – just to name a few.
Categories: Digital Art, Virtual Reality, Short Film, Motion Animation
Founded by David Moore, Andy Gray and James Morgan, KnownOrigin is another well-known NFT platform that allows artists to submit limited-edition digital artwork as NFTs. They now have 1000+ artists on the platform, as well as over 7000 editions and more than 11000 digital artworks sold.
Category: Digital Art
Sorare is a fantasy soccer game based on NFTs in the form of trading cards. After registering, you can buy these digital trading cards with players from many teams worldwide and always sell them on the transfer market. However, another function is especially important: with your cards you can create teams and play with them in fantasy leagues for various prizes.
Category: Sports Collectibles
Backed by Time Ventures and billionaire investor Mark Cuban, Mintable is another famous NFT marketplace built on top of the Ethereum blockcain. It allows users to create, distribute, buy, sell, and trade digital files through Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Creators have the option to mint free “gasless” NFTs, short-run printable series or traditional transaction-based items.
Categories: Digital Art, Photography, Videos, Games, Templates, Domain Names
The NFT marketplace Zora is more than just a trading platform. It is actually a media registry protocol, that allows creators to put out, and earn money on their unique work. The key focus of Zora is that it provides creators with way more ownership rights and freedom than existing pre-Web3 platforms.
Category: Digital Art
Async is labelled as the “new art movement built on the blockchain”. Special about Async Art is that it allows you to purchase both Masters and Layers. Think of a Master as a 1/1 edition artwork, while Layers are individual compose the Master image. Once published, the Master will constantly check its Layers for changes and update its appearance based on the Layer’s owners input.
Categories: Digital Art, Music, Video
MOBOX is a gamified ecosystem that integrates DeFi and NFTs and rewards users for their engagement. MOBOX offers a play-to-earn model and players can participate in blockchain games and access the NFT marketplace.
Categories: Gaming
THETA describes itself as a next-generation video and entertainment blockchain. It includes the NFT marketplace ThetaDrop. THETA already offers impressive partners for its Enterprise Validator Nodes – including Google, Sony, Samsung, Binance, Blockchain and more.
Categories: Digital Art, Collectibles
Magic Eden is a relatively new NFT marketplace for the Solana Blockchain. Users can buy, sell and create NFTs. The platform uses the Solana network’s token, SOL, as a payment method. Similar to platforms that use Ethereum, the fees are low. There is a 0% listing fee and a small transaction fee of only 2%. This makes it especially easy for new buyers and creators to get on the platform and use it conveniently.
Categories: Digital Art, Images, Music
Venly’s NFT Marketplace is a great way to share your NFTs with your public, as it is the first multi-blockchain peer-to-peer NFT marketplace with over 200,000 monthly users.
Categories: Video games, metaverse
Founded in Stockholm by Christina Löwenström and Johan Forsman Löwenström, Zeptagram is a NFTs and DNFTs marketplace for for music rights. It rewards artists and music lovers for their creative expression and dedication to music.
Categories: Music
On Valuables, a platform created by Cent, users can auction off their tweets for payment in Ether (ETH). Other buyers can then place bids by entering the tweet’s URL or the user’s handle in a search bar. This is the NFT marketplace where Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sold his autographed first tweet for $2.9 million.
Category: Tweets
The Portion NFT Marketplace lists various crypto artworks and collectables from many different artists. The main focus of this NFT trading platform is to build a trusted platform with a high degree of transparency while at the same time enabling the exchange of authentic and high-value digital artworks.
Category: Digital Art
