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Unifying Onchain Creativity

Raster is fixing the NFT art world’s biggest UX flaw: fragmentation.
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Oct 30, 20254 min read
Unifying Onchain Creativity
Published on Oct. 30, 2025
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Consolidating Digital Art with Raster
Bankless Author: William Peaster

In the NFT art scene, fragmentation has long been a pain point. For artists and collectors, this woe manifests in two main ways:

  • Artists' mints often live across multiple chains and platforms. It's hard for creatives to showcase their onchain oeuvres in a cohesive, easily discoverable way.
  • Likewise, collectors' NFT holdings are increasingly spread out over various chains and wallets. It's difficult to track all that you own, and where you own it.

I've lived both sides of this problem. I've minted my art since 2019 across over a dozen platforms and on a handful of chains. Plus, I've collected art across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, Solana, Tezos, etc., typically with distinct wallets for each network.

That's why a project aimed at solving this sort of fragmentation recently caught my eye: Raster.

Collecting, not archeology

Introduced in September 2025 by thefunnyguys and metaclass, Raster is a new digital art marketplace. It consolidates:

  • Chains — The platform launched with support for NFTs on Ethereum, Ethereum L2s, and Tezos, with Bitcoin and Solana integrations incoming.
  • Markets — Raster aggregates listings, offers, and etc. from OpenSea, Magic Eden, and beyond, and if you list your NFTs on Raster itself, the platform cross-posts to external marketplaces for added reach.
  • Profiles — A Raster profile compiles an artist's works from all supported chains into a clean, singular gallery. Conversely, collector profiles pull together holdings from any connected wallets, displaying them by artist and with live activity feeds of your recent sales, offers, etc.

For example, one of my favorite artists is Gremplin. When I go to his Raster profile, the page surfaces +40 collections—it's easy to look through and discover pieces that are hard to find elsewhere:

And when I go to my collector profile, I find all my holdings organized neatly by artist like so:

All that said, the combination of cross-chain support and clean, easy-to-navigate UX makes Raster an awesome new resource for onchain creatives and collectors. Royalties are honored here, too.

Of course, the platform only just arrived, so its indexing isn't comprehensive yet. But with 16M tokens and 100k artists tracked so far, the scope is already expansive.

For instance, I noticed Raster indexed an old art collection of mine that I minted on Tezos in 2021. I forgot about the series, and it's basically unknown to anyone else. So it's cool to see Raster going both deep and wide in its coverage.

Things will get deeper and wider too, especially once Bitcoin and Solana support are added. In the meantime, the Raster team's fielding feedback, so if you notice any works or artists are missing from the site, you can use the contact pop-up in the FAQ to let them know!


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