Tools for NFT Summer 🏖️
A selected list of resources to help you surf this summer's NFT seas!
Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs, virtual worlds, & collectibles
Dear Bankless Nation,
What many were expecting to be DeFi Summer 2.0 has shaped up to be NFT Summer instead!
However, there’s so much going on around NFTs right now that it can be quite challenging to keep your finger on the pulse of this booming ecosystem’s constant happenings.
No worries, though. The way to overcome this challenge is by knowing the right tools and services to turn to when you want to readily analyze and act on NFT data.
For today’s Metaversal, then, I’m going to walk you through a handful of NFT resources that I’ve found useful lately and that you may find useful, too. 🔍
-WMP
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Selected Tools for NFT Summer!
Analytics
CryptoSlam! — NFT marketplace analytics service that tracks activity across Ethereum, Polygon, Ronin, Flow, etc.
DeGenData.io — Previously covered in Metaversal, this NFT analytics service helps users easily search through granular data on popular projects like CryptoPunks, Bored Apes Yacht Club, VeeFriends, and more.
niftyriver.io — An upstart NFT marketplace analytics platform that’s useful for tracking OpenSea’s hourly NFT sales..
Price floors
wgmi.io — Named after the We’re Gonna Make It meme, this website helps users easily track daily changes in floor prices for dozens of popular NFT projects.
nftpricefloor.com — Similar to wgmi.io, this site is a resource for analyzing daily NFT price floor changes.
Zeneca_33’s floor updates — NFT writer Zeneca_33 offers daily price floor updates for top NFT projects on Twitter; these are must-reads if you’re looking to analyze market trends over time!
New drops
rarity.tools Upcoming NFT Sales — rarity.tools is primarily used by collectors looking to analyze trait rarities in NFT collectibles projects, but the site also has a nifty “Upcoming NFT Sales” section for keeping up-to-date on impending mint events.
Gas management
NFT Gas Station — Created by tech0ptimist, this website helps you compare current ETH gas prices across Ethereum’s top NFT platforms.
Our NFT Gas Station is on @ProductHunt 😱 PumpMyGas by Optimist: The first NFT gas tool for artists and collectors ⛽️🥬 producthunt.com/posts/pumpmyga… via @chrismessina @parisrouz @poydos @rorhug @LizHagelthorn @isiain @coconidodev @m1guelpfraribleanalytics.com Live Gas dashboard — This resource helps you check out the current gas costs for a variety of activities across the Rarible platform.
Wallet management + tracking
NFTBank.ai — A smart NFT portfolio management service that helps NFT users track a wide range of analytics about their NFT inventories.
Rainbow — A mobile Ethereum wallet that makes it easy to track your DeFi and NFT activities in a single app.
Zapper — An Ethereum wallet dashboard for managing your DeFi and NFT positions.
Trading
Sudoswap — A peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol for trading “collections of ERC20/721/1155 tokens.”
NFT Trader — A P2P NFT trading protocol for swapping baskets of tokens.
swap.kiwi — Another user-friendly NFT swapping protocol.
Community
Discord Nitro — With so much NFT community activity taking place on Discord, the premium benefits provided by Nitro are worth considering as they improve the overall UX of the app.
PartyBid — Created by PartyDAO, this is a new decentralized product for creating group bids on NFTs.
Metaverse
Awesome Metaverse — A sprawling repository filled with metaverse resources compiled by metaverse specialist Jin.
The Open Metaverse OS — An extensive research report on the contemporary possibilities of the metaverse composed by the Outlier Ventures network.
Polygon NFTs
awesomepolygon.com NFT + Gaming section — A repository of NFT and gaming projects operating on Polygon’s PoS sidechain.
Action steps
🕵♀️ Pick one of the NFT resources mentioned above that you haven’t used/seen before and explore it!
📰 Read “How to mint NFTs on Zora” in Metaversal
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