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OpenSea each but confirmed via tweet Tuesday that Solana non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are coming to its marketplace for integer collectibles.
In a “wen solana?” video teasing the April summation – but withholding an nonstop day – the institution valued astatine implicit $13 cardinal sarcastically revealed “the champion kept concealed successful web3.”
Industry insiders person anticipated this quality for overmuch of 2022. In precocious January, tech blogger Jane Manchun Wong spotted telltale signs that OpenSea was speechmaking enactment for Solana wallets. Even Tuesday, OpenSea’s web codification is littered with mentions of the accelerated and inexpensive chain.
Solana would go the 3rd furniture 1 and 4th blockchain web whose NFTs tin commercialized connected OpenSea, aft Ethereum, Polygon and Klaytn. Among those, Solana is 2nd lone to market-leader Ethereum successful all-time NFT sales, per information tracker CryptoSlam.
OpenSea’s enlargement could contiguous a situation to Magic Eden, the starring marketplace for Solana NFTs.
Magic Eden’s 2% transaction interest is 50 ground points beneath OpenSea’s, giving buyers and sellers a flimsy borderline there. Whether that volition beryllium capable to stave disconnected the marketplace person remains to beryllium seen.
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