Wallet and trading platform Blockchain.com teased a couple of hours back a marketplace for purchasing, selling, and holding Ethereum-based NFTs. This feature should be available in the following weeks and is already accepting people on its waiting list.
According to the press release:
“We want to make accessing the NFT market as easy as accessing the crypto market. With the Blockchain.com NFT marketplace (in beta), you’ll be able to browse, buy, sell, and securely store NFTs without ever leaving your Blockchain.com Wallet.”
It should be mentioned that users are, of course, allowed to leave, as the wallet is non-custodial, which implies that one can transfer NFTs to other wallets.
Blockchain.com could become a staple of the NFT industry. The company was founded in 2011 as a block explorer and created one of the very first Bitcoin wallets. It currently hosts about 80 million wallets – by comparison, the biggest wallet for Ethereum-based applications, MetaMask, reached 21 million monthly active users last month.
If not all 80 million, but at least some of those users get into buying NFTs, as it is likely, Blockchain.com would be worth keeping an eye on.
Coinbase NFT is also programmed to be released before 2021 is over. Meanwhile, FTX NFTs has just introduced Ethereum collectibles like CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs.
Then again, success is not always guaranteed. Gemini acquired Nifty Gateway in 2019 before NFTs were trending at these high volumes, and, despite a strong couple of months in early 2021, trading volumes and mintings began dipping as Rarible and OpenSea became more popular.