With this announcement, OpenSea officially revealed that the rumors circulating since January of this year were accurate. It is unclear precisely from what day users will be able to market their NFTs introduced on the Solana platform.
OpenSea, the most prominent Ethereum-based NFT trading platform on the market, finally confirmed the rumors circulating since April, highlighting it will activate backup for trading digital collectibles that operate on the Solana network.
OpenSea will Merge Support for the Solana Network
The revelation arrived from the OpenSea team through its official social networks. It highlighted a short video as a Teaser in which it joked about the number of messages where the leaks revealing the plans in development appeared.
Entitled “The best-kept secret in web3,” the 16-second video ends with the official revelation of the Solana network integration into OpenSea, which would become effective next month, but the release day remains unknown.
The first rumors originally appeared earlier this year after blogger Jane Manchun Wong revealed that he discovered mentions of Solana and the Phantom wallet in parts of the OpenSea website.
However, this week an alleged logo appeared as a leak that referred to a possible integration with the network in the beta phase and other references to the Solflare wallet.
These references serve as extra- information in the reports from users who claimed to have connected their Phantom wallets to the platform. However, it was impossible to make the NFTs connected to addresses visible.
Solana at OpenSea
According to the procedure, analysts and enthusiasts describe this revelation as a step that achieved their expectations since the race for intelligent contract networks has been increasing recently.
On the other hand, Solana gained more visibility due to its advantages in scalability and low costs for activities.
The NFT space on Solana has also been expanding its tentacles in recent months, highlighting collections such as Solana Monkey Business, Degenerate Ape Academy, and Aurory.
These collections became public with commercial networks such as Magic Eden registering high commercial operations rates.
Keep in mind that OpenSea initially works on the Ethereum network, so this new announcement could represent an upcoming expansion of its activities in the future as it intends to open space for other intelligent contract networks.
Among the ecosystems moving very firmly within the NFT space is Avalanche, Cardano, and many others, which also want to offer their benefits in terms of scalability and low costs to support these and other kinds of projects.
By: Jenson Nuñez
