Playing With Crypto? You’ll Need a Wallet (or Several)

If people who buy cryptocurrencies intended only to hold on to them as speculative investments, there'd be no real need for crypto wallets. Wallets can also store digital collectibles like NFTs that you might want to buy, sell, trade, or transfer to someone else, or even to another wallet you own. And, because they’re typically decentralized, even if they’re created by an exchange like Coinbase Wallet or Binance’s Trust Wallet, you control the account. For instance, OpenSea supports Ethereum, Polygon, and Klatyn blockchains; most transactions use Ethereum and a lot of NFT traders use Metamask to buy, sell, store, and list for purchase NFTs they got through OpenSea. For Solanart, which relies on the Solana blockchain, where NFTs like “Degenerate Ape Academy” are traded, you’d probably want to choose a wallet that is commonly used by Solana cryptocurrency holders such as Phantom, Solflare, or Sollet.