Most Solana NFT Marketplaces support 3 common wallets:
The most popular is Phantom, so we’ll be using that one for this tutorial.
If you have set up MetaMask before, then Phantom’s process should be a breeze; it’s very similar.
Check out Phantom’s setup guide if you need further assistance.
As for the wallet experience, I prefer Phantom’s user experience over MetaMask. Overall it has a more polished design, and it’s nice that you can view your collectibles by default in the browser extension:
Like ETH, you will need to buy SOL on a supported exchange and then send it to your Phantom wallet address. SOL is NOT available on Uniswap or Sushiswap. List of 41 SOL Exchanges.
Most common:
Steps to get your SOL ready to buy NFTs:
The “Withdraw” process is similar across most exchanges. Below is the withdraw screen from Binance.
**Strongly recommend sending a small amount first to confirm everything was input correctly.
On Binance, it took about 5 minutes for the SOL withdrawal to be processed and show up in my Phantom wallet.
coming soon.