Simply two months in the past, NFT buying and selling platform Tensor raised $3 million in a seed spherical. Quick ahead to at the moment, and it’s near regaining its place as the largest Solana-based NFT market primarily based on market share.
“Numerous momentum got here from the announcement,” Tensor co-founder Richard Wu mentioned, talking in regards to the seed spherical, which TechCrunch lined exclusively in March. “Relating to a market, liquidity is essential to draw customers, and it had a snowball impact on itself.”
Tensor final week reached 45% of Solana’s NFT market share, surpassing Solana-centric NFT market Magic Eden’s 44% share over a seven-day interval, based on data collected by Tiexo. Whereas the 1% distinction could appear nominal, it’s an enormous soar for a reasonably new platform up towards a large with virtually 200x the customers.
Tensor launched a non-public beta in June 2022 and opened to the general public the next month. In March, it had over 30,000 month-to-month energetic customers, and by April, its MAU was up about 317% to over 125,000, co-founder Ilja Moisejevs mentioned.
In comparison with Magic Eden, which has 22 million distinctive month-to-month guests, that makes its share of the market is substantial.
Magic Eden has since regained the highest slot for Solana-based NFT quantity over the previous seven days with 44.2% share, per Tiexo knowledge, and Tensor isn’t far behind at 40.5%. However market share is “not the highest precedence” for Tensor, Wu mentioned. “For us, market share is a proxy for what we’re constructing, however on the finish of the day, our aim is to develop Solana 10x.”
“I believe lots of people on Twitter prefer to dramatize issues,” Moisejevs mentioned. “They wish to see a battle of marketplaces. There’s wholesome competitors between us [and Magic Eden], however the level we wish to drive house is we’re not right here to win 80% of a non-existent market. We would like us to win, Solana to win, and we might be an even bigger enterprise if Solana as a sequence does properly.”
Solana is the third-largest blockchain for NFTs by gross sales quantity, with over $3.96 billion in all-time gross sales, based on data from NFT aggregator CryptoSlam. Prior to now 30 days, Solana NFT gross sales quantity decreased about 24.4% to $73.3 million, the information confirmed.
Normally, the Solana ecosystem is getting stronger, at the very least in comparison with six months in the past, Wu mentioned. One prime instance of that’s the folks and tasks like Mad Lads, he mentioned, including that at one level, it was a high assortment by quantity forward of some Ethereum blue chip collections. “What they’ve completed and demonstrated with their launch on Solana is unbelievable.”
