- Solana’s new state compression technology could bring down the cost of minting NFTs.
- The total NFT sales volume for Solana grew 31% in the last 30 days.
Solana’s [SOL] NFT ecosystem has been severely hit by exits of two of its most popular and valuable NFT collections, y00ts and DeGods, in 2023. While y00ts has almost completed its migration to the Polygon [MATIC] chain, its sister project, DeGods, move to Ethereum [ETH] was also underway at press time.
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As per CryptoSlam, the total NFT sales volume on Solana grew 31% in the last 30 days. However, the NFT trade count dipped by over 8%. It remains to be seen how much of an impact the absence of aforementioned collections will have on the second-largest NFT market in the crypto space.
However, amidst this negativity, the Solana network introduced a game-changing technology which could entice the NFT community in the days to come.
Solana NFT minting becomes affordable
The Solana Foundation was planning to make it cheaper to store NFTs on the blockchain using its ‘state compression technology’. As per the blog post, compressed NFTs are just like traditional NFTs, except for the fact that cost of minting is drastically reduced.
In the example provided by Solana, minting a million uncompressed NFTs costs more than $250,000 on the chain currently. The same will cost $113 using compressed
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