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MakersPlace Shuts Down Amid NFT Market Downturn

by Dalmas Ngetich
Jan 17, 2025 - 5:16 pm
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Overview of MakersPlace Closure MakersPlace, one of the pioneering digital art platforms in the NFT art space, has announced its closure after six years of operation. The announcement, which came on Jan. 15, 2025, blamed ongoing market challenges and funding issues as key reasons for the closure. MakersPlace was an early player in the NFT boom, having been launched in 2018 to help digital artists monetize their work by leveraging blockchain technology. However, the precipitous decline of the NFT market since 2022 weighed heavily on MakersPlace and other such platforms, turning yet another severe setback for the industry in general.

Transition Period for Users

Even though the platform is shut off for new accounts and minting, NFTs are allowed to still sell on MakersPlace until the site shutdown. A tool would go online this February, through which users would be able to shift their digital assets to external wallets or to secondary marketplaces. This transfer window opens from now until June 2025. It added by saying that Ethereum-minted NFTs, meaning the pieces created on it, would stay accessible on other platforms.

Funding and Early Success

In 2021, at the height of the NFT craze, MakersPlace raised $30 million in a Series A funding round from prominent investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Sony Music Entertainment. The capital helped MakersPlace scale operations and lure prominent digital artists onto the platform. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dannie Chu said that he was proud of the role the platform played to drive global conversations about NFTs. Despite this early success, the prolonged downturn in the NFT market eventually undermined the company’s ability to sustain operations.

The NFT Industry’s Broader Challenges

The NFT market has plunged precipitously since its peak in 2022, and trading volumes have fallen to levels not seen since 2020. MakersPlace is not alone. Recur and Voice also shut down in 2023, citing market difficulties and regulatory uncertainty. Even industry behemoths like GameStop pulled out of the NFT space in 2024, further underlining the struggles of the sector.

Meanwhile, other industry bigwigs remain very optimistic for the future. For example, Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands, thinks that NFTs will have a major comeback and even possibly outshine the high level they saw during 2021-2022.

With MakersPlace winding down operations, it brings into view just how rapid both the growth and volatility in the NFT market can be.

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Dalmas Ngetich

Dalmas Ngetich

His primary focus is on technical analysis (crypto is, obviously, *not* crypto without the twirls of price action), the magic of DeFi, and NFTs. He is specifically training his eyes and effort on DeFi—and how the tech is changing investment, opening up opportunities for everyone—and the possibilities of NFTs.

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