I don't think OpenSea has made a huge impact yet. I think the real "ETH money" will come when Metamask or Phantom go crosschain and have in app SOL-ETH swaps. That way it can be integrated into the checkout process on OS. Imo any ETH head who can go thru the process of using Wormhole or Sideshift to swap for SOL will have already bought their SOL NFTs on Magic Eden. That being said the visibility will still help in the meantime for sure.
Aurory has been moving lately, I noticed they had the top 7D volume on OS for SOL projects (Grim Syndicate #3
).
Botting is almost necessary if you want to hit on any mint now. Since most projects are doing majority whitelisted mints it just leaves scraps for the botters in public mint
. Even Magic Eden snipers cook post-mint. It's almost impossible to manually buy floor listings on a hot project when they first hit ME. Urban AIO seems to be the top bot right now. Eclypse and Sol Snipers are some others.
I haven't been messing with bots. Just been taking what I can get thru whitelists via Dragonz or copping secondary after the hype has died down. Selling whitelist tokens pre mint is also just free money. NFTs have been booming for a little bit again so it does seem like we're in a bull. But with the amount of rugs and overpromise/under-deliver I try not to hold stuff for very long
. Really only thinking long term on Dragonz and Remnants.