To buy an NFT on Solana, you need three things: a self-custody Solana wallet, some SOL, and a marketplace such as Magic Eden or Tensor, where a purchase usually costs the listed price plus a 2% marketplace fee and a network fee of a fraction of a cent. The whole process takes about ten minutes the first time. The part that protects your money is not the purchase itself but the check before it: confirming you are on the real collection, not a copy with the same name and picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
A Solana wallet is the account that holds your SOL and receives the NFT, and the private key never leaves your device. Gem Wallet, Phantom and Solflare are common choices. Gem Wallet<\/a> is an open-source self-custody app that shows Metaplex NFTs in its Collections tab and connects to Magic Eden and Tensor through WalletConnect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Write the seed phrase on paper and keep it offline. No marketplace, support agent or “verification” bot ever needs it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Solana NFTs are priced in SOL, so you need the price of the NFT plus a small buffer for fees and rent. Buy SOL on an exchange and withdraw it to your wallet address on the Solana network; the full process is in our guide to buying SOL<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A buffer of 0.01 SOL is enough for many purchases: it covers the token account rent of about 0.00149 SOL and hundreds of base-fee signatures at 0.000005 SOL each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Magic Eden and Tensor list most of the same collections, so the choice comes down to how you trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStep 2: Fund the Wallet With SOL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Step 3: Pick a Marketplace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n