Solsea is an 🏷️#nft-marketplace on the 📝Solana blockchain, built by the ALL.ART Protocol and launched in August 2021. Creators mint, list, and trade 📝NFTs priced in SOL or USDC, with a baseline 2% trading fee that holders can reduce, down to zero, by staking ALL.ART's $AART utility token. Its defining feature is licensing: creators can embed a copyright license directly into an NFT at mint, spelling out what rights a buyer actually receives.
Solsea arrived with support from a Serum grant and billed itself as the first open NFT marketplace on Solana, pitching on-marketplace minting, rarity rankings, and Solana's low transaction costs to creators priced out of 📝Ethereum gas; much of its early audience gathered in the r/solana community. It positions against Ethereum-first marketplaces such as 📝OpenSea and, on Solana itself, competes with Magic Eden and Tensor. Beyond secondary trading, the platform has grown a launchpad for new collections, curated virtual exhibitions, and AI agent tooling for launching and promoting collections, and it continues to operate on Solana mainnet under a beta label.
Key Features
- Embedded licenses — creators attach a copyright license to each NFT at mint, recording usage rights on-chain.
- Integrated minting — mint directly on the marketplace with custom traits, attributes, and unlockable content.
- Rarity rankings — a rarity index and trait ranking for each collection.
- $AART fee staking — staking the ALL.ART token lowers the 2% trading fee in tiers, down to 0%.
- Launchpad — a launch platform for new collections alongside public and private listings.