OpenSea said on August 31 that users can now discover, buy and sell Solana NFTs alongside Solana tokens on its marketplace. The move brings the platform back to Solana NFT trading roughly four years after its initial beta, and it arrives through OS2, the latest version of the marketplace.
A return to Solana NFTs
The announcement highlights collections like Claynosaurz, Mad Lads, Collector Crypt and Phygitals as available at launch. Solana joins a marketplace that OpenSea says now spans more than 25 blockchains. The company had already moved back onto the network through a staged OS2 rollout, which restored fungible-token trading before NFT support.
The 2022 beta and what went wrong
The first Solana NFT test went live on April 6, 2022, allowing users to buy, sell and transfer Solana NFTs. At the time, Solana generated $173 million in NFT trading volume in March 2022, and the beta covered 165 collections. But it gained limited traction as Magic Eden and Tensor dominated Solana NFT activity.
A staged comeback
OpenSea reintroduced Solana in April 2025 for fungible-token trading first, and said NFT support would follow. The August rollout extends Solana's presence on OpenSea from tokens to the NFT market. The present release is delivered through OS2 rather than as a continuation of the original launch.
What's not in the announcement
The announcement doesn't provide marketplace-volume targets, collection-count totals or details on how trading activity will be divided between OpenSea and established Solana-native venues. That leaves open the question of whether OpenSea can carve out a meaningful share of a market that Magic Eden and Tensor have largely owned.
The rollout is live now, but OpenSea hasn't said how it plans to compete with those incumbents. The next concrete step is likely the platform's own trading data, which will show whether Solana users actually show up.
