Creating an Optimistic NFT

An NFT ecosystem consists of creators (supply), marketplaces, and buyers/traders (demand) built on top of infrastructures that enable algorithmic generation of art, deployment of smart contracts and access to NFT market intelligence.

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The Optimism NFT ecosystem

These tools are available on Optimism:

Creator tools

• NiftyKit (opens new window)
• nft-inator (opens new window)
• Zero Code NFT (opens new window)
• Unlock (opens new window) (time-bound NFTs for membership)
• ThirdWeb (opens new window)

Feature comparison

This comparison may be out of date

It is accurate, as far as we know, when written (early January 2023), but new features are implemented all the time.

	NiftyKit	NFT-Inator	Mintplex	Zero Code NFT	ThirdWeb
Multi-chain	3	5	6	11	7 (Flow coming soon)
Generator	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌
ERC-20 support	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
ERC-721A support	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
ERC-1155 support	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅
DAO support	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
No Code deployment	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Pricing / Fee	Flat membership fee plus 2.5%-10% of the sales (opens new window)	2% commission on primary sales	Paywall for premium features	Test for free, $499 for OpenSea setup	Currently zero
Image Hosting	NFT storage (opens new window) / Pinata (opens new window)	NFT storage (opens new window) / Pinata (opens new window)	Up to creators. Recommend Pinata (opens new window)	IPFS (opens new window)	IPFS (opens new window). Arweave (opens new window) and Filecoin (opens new window) coming soon

Marketplaces

• Quix (opens new window)
• OpenSea (opens new window)
• Tofu (opens new window)
• OptiMarket (opens new window)
• Circular Art (opens new window)

Transaction aggregator

• Bluesweep (opens new window)

Liquidity

• Backed (opens new window) lets you use NFTs as collateral

NFT data APIs

• Alchemy (opens new window)
• SimpleHash (opens new window)
• QuickNode (opens new window)