How to Create NFTs

How to Create NFTs

Choose the best platform for you

With over 50 platforms you can choose from, it’s no wonder that you can get lost. Not all platforms are created equal, so it’s best if you check them out individually.

Some platforms are invite-only, like Nifty Gateway, Knoworigin, and SuperRare. While some require user verification (Rarible, Foundation).

Most platforms also charge a service fee, called a "gas fee" for the computational mining caused by transactions using Ethereum’s blockchain. For example, Nifty Gateway takes 5% plus $0.30 of every secondary sale. SuperRare takes 3% transaction from all purchases, paid by the buyer. Foundation charges up to a whopping 15% commission depending how quickly you want the transaction to be completed and how busy the network is at the time of your transaction. While OpenSea, on the other hand, offers a “lazy minting” option, which amounts to the deferred payment of gas fees until the actual sale.

Yet these gas fees can fluctuate even during the course of one day, so the best thing to do is check the platforms individually when deciding to mint.

1. Foundation

Also known as Foundation.app, it's one of the biggest marketplaces for NFTs. Get ready for some live bidding action on this platform. It’s easy to navigate for artists, and for anyone to participate in decentralized bidding for digital creations.

2. Opensea

OpenSea is the largest NFT marketplace around. Anyone can participate, and anything goes here.

3. SuperRare

SuperRare refers to itself as “Instagram meets Christie’s.” Christie’s being the super established 250-years-old auction house that sold Beeple’s masterpieces. Unlike OpenSea, their collection is only NFT crypto art. They only work with a small number of NFT artists that are hand-picked by their profiling process.

4. Nifty Gateway

Nifty Gateway sells some of the most coveted digital art today. They are constantly selling out of exclusive collections.

5. Rarible

Rarible is another marketplace for trading digital art. One unique thing about this platform is that users can earn themselves RARI tokens, which are referred to as “governance tokens”. These tokens give its user community various rights in the decision-making process of how the platform is run.