Three NFT marketplaces fewer: what matters when buying now

Buying an NFT in 2026 means facing fewer doors than a year ago. An NFT marketplace is the venue where digital collectibles are offered, auctioned and sold. Three large providers wound this business down wholly or in part over the course of the year: Binance's NFT trading, the art platform Nifty Gateway and Magic Eden's non-Solana markets. Still open are OpenSea, Blur, Tensor, Rarible and SuperRare. Since those closures, which marketplace comes into question for you is decided above all by one question: which blockchain your desired NFT sits on.