Metaplex Core Sees Surge in Adoption from Solana Creators

Metaplex's new Core NFT standard offers cheaper minting and richer on-chain logic, and creators are migrating fast.

Originally on CryptoSlate →

Adrian Boysel

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Jun 22, 2026

1 min read

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Metaplex Core, the lightweight successor to Token Metadata, has been adopted by a growing list of Solana NFT teams looking to cut mint costs and unlock plugin-based extensibility.

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