Buying Algorand NFTs: An Overview

Lana

Written byLana Starzinska

When it comes to buying NFTs, Algorand has a strong NFT community and a wide variety of Art and Marketplaces to check out, let's get into it!

Where do I Buy NFTs?

To start buying NFTs you're going to want to check out some of the popular Algorand NFT Marketplaces such as: Rand Gallery, Algogems, ALGOxNFT, EXA Market, and shufl_app.

These Marketplaces offer different services and NFTs so the first thing you will need to do is see which one is for you, here's a small overview of each!

Rand Gallery

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A small overview of what Rand has to offer: 

  • It's one of the most popular/largest NFT Marketplace on Algorand Very user friendly pages
  • Categories such as: digital/hand-drawn art, photography, and 3D NFTs
  • Offers 1/1s, collections, and Rand Drops Secondary Market Discord Bot
  • Quite an active team on X (Twitter) and Discord who will help with any questions and support you through buying NFTs!

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Algogems

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A small overview of what Algogems has to offer: 

  • Has its own token ($GEMS) and DAO Offers collections, 1/1s, sales, auctions and shuffles
  • NFT categories such as: Art, Algorand, Pixel, CGI, and Drawing It's in beta V2.0

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ALGOxNFT

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A small overview of what ALGOxNFT has to offers:

  • Offers auctions, shuffles, 1/1s and collections
  • Inscriptions (Unlike traditional NFTs all data is being stored directly on Algorand, compared to all data being stored off-chain)
  • Has a Listing, Sales, and Offers Bots (on Discord)

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EXA Market

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A small overview of what EXA Market has to offer:

  • Offers collections, 1/1s, and drops
  • EXA Swap with other wallets (can trade up to 4 NFTs or ASAs for 1)
  • Collection Rankings and Activity charts (where you can view the highest-ranking collection, bids, airdrops, offers, listings, and sales)
  • Easy to use filtered search system

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Shufl

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A small overview of what Shufl has to offer:

  • Has “Shufl news” which hosts articles about the NFT space and up and coming collections/artists
  • You can view collections, 1/1s, see new listings/sales on the site and view their Activity chart
  • 2.5% of platform fees are donated to Tree Planting (Gilbert Goanna Tree Fund)

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