Three NFT marketplaces fewer: what matters when buying now

The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments carry a high degree of risk. Always conduct your own research.Binance has ended NFT trading, Nifty Gateway is closed and Magic Eden trades only on Solana. Which NFT marketplaces are open in 2026, what a purchase costs and why MiCA does not protect you there.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. What an NFT marketplace is and where it differs from a crypto exchange An NFT marketplace is a trading platform for non-fungible tokens, meaning tokens that cannot be swapped against one another like coins, because each of them designates its own...