Question 1

Why should web3 games utilize an NFT API?

Accepted Answer

web3 games should focus on delivering the best end gaming experience, instead of building base level indexing infrastructure. By using an API provider to ingest NFT data, they can save engineering time and effort.

Question 2

How can web3 games properly handle NFT collections?

Accepted Answer

SimpleHash provides unique collection IDs, including for sub-collections, and continually refreshes for the latest token assignments - this ensures collection metadata, floor prices and market data are properly attributed.

Question 3

What makes SimpleHash a better option for web3 games than the Alchemy NFT API?

Accepted Answer

SimpleHash has broader coverage of NFT metadata, includes NFT market data from more marketplaces and ecosystems. SimpleHash also provides a superior developer experience, including LLM powered spam scores, OpenRarity, standardized trait data, standard wallet valuations, market analytics (+ NFT volumes, market caps), reveal / drop detector events, and Solana compressed NFT support.

Question 4

How can web3 games account for NFT rarity?

Accepted Answer

SimpleHash uses the OpenRarity standard to provide item-level scoring on the response of every supported NFT token, making it easy to look at relative rarity within a collection.

Question 5

What blockchains can web3 games query NFT data on using SimpleHash?

Accepted Answer

More than 40 different mainnets and testnets, including the main EVM chains, Solana and Bitcoin Ordinals.