Metaplex

Metaplex is the trusted standard for NFTs and digital assets on the Solana blockchain, powering thousands of applications, developers, and communities. The company has facilitated the creation of 257,821 collections and the minting of 370.4 million NFTs, generating $1.2 billion in creator revenue. Metaplex supports developers with Solana programs like Candy Machine, Auction House, and open-source SDKs, and offers no-code tools for creators to easily turn their art into various NFT formats. Creators can use a drag-and-drop feature to upload art and metadata and launch their collections with customizable mint pages. Metaplex Core improves minting costs and reduces Solana network load by over 85% for on-chain assets. The platform provides developer tools for web and mobile, and its Creator Studio helps users create, deploy, host, and launch their own NFTs. The Metaplex Foundation launched Metaplex Core, the next generation of Solana NFT standard. Metaplex organizes monthly round-ups to overview ecosystem activity and community contributions and offers a variety of assets in their Press Kit for project use. The company has a bug bounty program with rewards ranging from $200 to $200,000+ and specific guidelines for reporting vulnerabilities. Metaplex also provides Solana tutorials and starter issues for developers, hosts events like Consensus by CoinDesk and NFT NYC, and offers a Javascript SDK (Beta). Additionally, Metaplex has a community impact awards program to recognize contributions from developers.