Historic

Two of the marketplaces that carried Solana art are closed. Formfunction ran thirteen months and shut in March 2023. Exchange Art closed in August 2026. Both took their artist directories with them, because those directories were never on chain.

Collections that made the scene

• #1◎0.600Kreechures26 Mar 2021The first NFTs minted on Solana, March 2021, before Metaplex existed
• ◎1.51Solarians20 Apr 2021April 2021 robots, minted as tokens before the NFT standard existed and converted that August
• #2,217◎0.620SolPunks8 May 2021May 2021, the first collection on the Metaplex standard
• ◎0.070LegionPunks19 Jul 2021July 2021 punks, from the first month Solana had a market
• #15,052◎0.210ApeShit Social Club22 Jul 2021July 2021 apes, before the Academy
• #17,764◎0.400FRAKT22 Jul 2021Generative fractals from June and July 2021, the first generative art collection on Solana
• #12,041◎14.55Solana Monkey Business3 Aug 2021The original blue chip, and the set everything else was priced against
• #30,287◎0.028Solana Mees3 Aug 2021August 2021 pixel set, one of the OG eleven the Society still tracks
• #39,347◎2.69Degenerate Ape Academy13 Aug 2021August 2021 apes; the mint that sold out in minutes and set the pace for the year
• #39,464◎0.440Abstratica14 Aug 2021Abstract art from August 2021, one of the first art projects on Solana
• #38,678BOOGLE15 Aug 2021Gen1: one hundred numbered ghosts, November 2021, by an artist who still hangs them on Mallow
• #32,070◎0.240Sollamas17 Aug 2021Llamas from August 2021, in the first wave after the apes
• #90,598◎0.060Kaiju Cards21 Aug 2021Monster cards from August 2021
• #91,760◎1.00Solshrooms21 Aug 2021Mushrooms from the first of September 2021
• #99,853◎0.117Bold Badgers23 Aug 2021Badgers from 2021
• #95,284◎0.178Rox Collective28 Aug 2021Rox, Season One, August 2021
• ◎1.79Thugbirdz30 Aug 2021The first Solana PFP set, minted before the chain had a market to sell into
• ◎0.250Aurorians31 Aug 2021Aurory's companion set, and one of the earliest game NFTs on Solana to have art worth keeping
• SOLdiers1 Sept 2021September 2021
• ◎0.070Piggy Sol Gang4 Sept 2021Pigs from September 2021
• ◎0.019Panda Fraternity11 Sept 2021Solana Panda Social Club, September 2021
• ◎0.087Trippy Bunny Tribe11 Sept 2021Bunnies from September 2021
• ◎0.009Degen Lizzy15 Sept 2021Lizards from September 2021
• ◎0.069Cyber Samurai16 Sept 2021September 2021; the set lives on Tensor as Exiled Samurai
• ◎5.20Galactic Geckos22 Sept 2021Geckos from 2021, a space-guild set that kept its community
• ◎0.299Meerkat Millionaires Country Club23 Sept 2021Meerkats from 2021
• ◎0.290Playground Waves24 Sept 2021Generative waves from September 2021
• ◎0.013Eternal Beings28 Sept 2021September 2021
• ◎0.019Infinity Labs28 Sept 2021Scenes from the Solverse, September 2021
• ◎0.020Solchan28 Sept 2021September 2021
• ◎0.011Boneworld29 Sept 2021September 2021
• ◎0.029Galaxy Solo29 Sept 2021September 2021
• ◎3.48Famous Fox Federation30 Sept 2021Built tooling the whole ecosystem used, rather than only a picture
• ◎0.009Vampires of SOL30 Sept 2021September 2021
• ◎0.110Grim Syndicate1 Oct 2021Grims from the first of October 2021
• ◎4.49Degods8 Oct 2021Defined the era, then bridged away, which is its own piece of the history
• ◎0.194Matrica Labs: Pixels9 Oct 2021Matrica's own set, from the team that built wallet-to-identity linking for half of Solana
• ◎0.322Pesky Penguins9 Oct 20218,888 penguins from October 2021, still run by one of the three founders
• ◎0.060Jungle Cats18 Oct 2021Cats from 2021
• ◎0.020Nyan Heroes19 Oct 2021Game-backed cats from 2022
• ◎0.649Sol Slugs23 Oct 2021Slugs from October 2021
• ◎0.400Gods28 Oct 2021SolGods, 2021
• ◎2.00Boryoku Dragonz3 Nov 2021Dragons from 2021, an early high-value set
• ◎0.009Flux3 Nov 2021Flux: Evolutions, September 2021
• ◎0.019Shadowy Super Coder DAO3 Nov 2021November 2021 developer-themed set, widely held to have been abandoned by its team; the mints remain
• ◎0.750Solsunsets8 Nov 20214,310 sunsets from the same studio, and one of the sets that made generative art on Solana feel authored
• ◎6.70Taiyo Robotics22 Nov 2021The high point of generative art direction on Solana
• ◎0.020Solana Research Lab28 Nov 2021An early experiment set from the days when the chain was still being figured out in public
• ◎0.355Stoned Ape Crew28 Nov 2021One of the sets that carried Solana NFTs through the first winter, and still trading
• ◎0.280Catalina Whale Mixer17 Dec 2021Whales from late 2021
• ◎16.98Lifinity Flares26 Dec 2021Flares from 2022, tied to the Lifinity exchange
• ◎0.030Shroomies6 Jan 2022September 2021
• ◎0.500CETS9 Mar 2022Cets on Creck, 2022
• ◎0.900Smyths24 Mar 2022Blocksmith Labs, 2022
• ◎1.15Okay Bears26 Apr 2022The top of the 2022 market, for better and for worse
• ◎0.217Trippin Ape Tribe24 May 2022Apes from 2022
• ◎0.425Primates14 Jun 2022Primates from 2022
• ◎0.068Degen Fat Cats17 Jul 2022Cats from 2022
• ◎0.800Critters Cult25 Sept 2022The RGB/Suns studio's big generative set, 5,553 pieces, with the Lodge and Spin-offs orbiting it
• ◎0.027Red Panda Squad27 Sept 2022Red pandas from September 2021
• ◎0.085LILY18 Nov 20222022 set from the team behind the Whales
• ◎11.50Claynosaurz26 Nov 2022Kept making work after the drop, which almost nobody did
• ◎0.277Portals2022The metaverse bet, worth keeping as an attempt that was made
• ◎0.930y00ts2022Same year, same arc, same lesson about where a chain's culture lives
• ◎8.49Mad Lads19 Apr 2023The xNFT mint that carried Solana through its worst year
• ◎0.013Lazy Heroes30 Jun 20232,000 heroes from November 2021, handed to its community in 2023
• ◎3.00SMB Gen37 Jul 2023Solana Monkey Business, third generation, 2023
• ◎0.593Tensorians9 Aug 2023Tensor's own set, from the marketplace that supplies most of the collection names on this site
• ◎0.389Frogana21 Dec 2023Frogs from 2023
• ◎0.518Saga Monkes2023Monkes that came with the Saga phone, 2023
• ◎0.010Sealana17 Jul 2024Seals from September 2021

The first 100,000 NFTs

Every Metaplex-standard NFT, numbered by the slot its metadata was created in, read from the chain. Kreechures sit first by the slot they were minted in, before the standard existed. The Solana Historical Society counts every one-of-one token including those that never carried metadata, so its numbers run a little higher than these.

Where this work lives now

MallowNamed nearly every artist in this galleryTensorCollection names, edition numbers and sale pricesMagic EdenFloor prices, and the longest memory on the chain

Closed

• FormfunctionFebruary 2022 to March 2023365,766 transactions recovered from its program
• Exchange Artuntil August 20269,433 artist addresses recovered from its program

Their programs are still on chain, so the work and the wallets that signed it are recoverable. The names were not on chain and are not.