I. Chinese Platform Study

A. Primary Market

1. BCA

MetaOpus
  • Chinese friendly, Chinese artist > English
  • 500+ Artists, 80k users. Start from 5.2021
  • Acution: 大悲宇宙,张知微
  • Artists development, like MCN media, cooporate with emerging artist
  • Model: 2/8, no gas fee
MetaOpus homepage
Virtual Niche Have you ever seen memes in the mirror?
  • The world’s first Cryptoart exhibition
  • Featured works include Robert Alice’s “Portraits of a mind”, the first ever NFT artwork sold by Christie’s auction house. In addition, 20 works by artist, Beeple will make their first ever debut appearance in China.
  • Aim to showcase artists using blockchain technology as a medium for creating dialogue and connection between the institutional art world and the crypto community.
Virtual Niche exhibition post
BCA Gallery
  • Online (wechat program) and in-person exhibition (pop-up)
BCA Gallery wechat program screenshot

2. NFTcn

Service
  • Mint
  • promotion
  • Trading
    • Put on SuperRare, Rarible … 
    • Characteristic service 
      • All Chinese
      • No background knowledge needed
      • No digital wallet needed
Process of submitting works
  • Application
  • Waiting for customer service contacting
  • Upload works
  • Waiting for the buyer or send it as a gift to collector
  • Sold
    • 10% commission fee
    • RMB & Cryptocurrency accepted 
Chinese only problems solving
  • Not familiar with blockchain, digital wallets, etc.
  • No need to understand blockchain, digital wallets, etc.
  • Not familiar with how to generate NFT works on overseas NFT platforms
  • Simultaneous sale of overseas NFT platforms
  • Lack of exposure and no trading volume after the works are on the chain
  • Intelligent matching of potential collectors after the work is on the chain
  •  No IP targeting
  • Collective promotion makes it easier to be discovered by overseas collectors
  • “Expensive” gas fee (around $250)
  • No casting gas fee (only ¥300 manual review fee is required for the first review. If the review fails, a full refund will be issued.)

3. Pinmujian

  • Start from March 2021, focused on digital art, but similar model as Cryoto art trading.

II. English Platform Study

A. Primary Market

1. SuperRare

  • Require submission (couple weeks)
    • Portfolio required
  • Aim to be the curated single edition rare artwork place
    • To be like the instagram meets Christie’s
  • Great user interface and diligently updating
  • Repost very often on social with their artists having news or releases
  • One of the premier places
superrare.com homepage
SuperRare Editorial page

2. MakersPlace

  • Curated
    • Require submission
    • Curation seems to be more broader than other platforms
    • Variety of artistic styles
  • To empower digital creators with creating a marketplace to sell their creations
  • Having issues with artist plagiarism
  • Credit card available
makersplace.com homepage

3. Rarible

  • Community owned  platform
    • Open to everyone, a trash and treasure of crypto art space – a flea market
      • All sorts of trash
      • Definitely treasures if you know what you’re looking for
    • Wide audience
      • Difficulty to get discovered if not verified
      • even got verified ticked couldn’t get discovered organically when posting
    • Possibly looking for bargains
      • Not the high end of crypto art market
      • But may be worth trying out to get feet wet selling
  • Copyright infringement and plagiarism
rarible.com homepage

4. Nifty Gateway

  • Invitation only
    • Scheduled artist drop events
  • To make NFT art accessible to everyone
    • Platform teaming with top artists to make quality limited edition drops with hype releases
      • Name an upcoming artist and the date then spread the hype
      • Only available for a short time
      • Often sell out within minutes or seconds
      • Then they have a secondary marketplace 
  • Curator’s collection 
    • Artists could recommended by creators 
niftygateway.com homepage

5. OpenSea

  • Catch-all mothership for digital collectibles like eBay
opensea.io homepage

6. Async

  • With programmable digital art that can evolve or change over time
async.art homepage

7. Foundation

foundation.app homepage

8. hic et nunc

hicetnunc.xyz homepage