Adobe's Behance adds support for Solana NFTs

08-Mar-2022 By: Simran Mishra

Behance, the creative showcase platform owned by Adobe, announcedon Monday that users can now connect their Phantom wallet to their Behanceaccounts and showcase Solana (SOL) nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on their profiles.

Phantom is a Solana wallet built fordecentralized finance,

or DeFi, applications as well as for NFTs. QuickNode, aMiami-based Web3 infrastructureplatform, and helped build out this feature with Adobe on Solana.

Behance creators can already display their NFTs minted on theEthereum (ETH) blockchain within their profiles. William Allen, the Adobe vicepresident leading Behance, explained on Twitter that many of Behance’s users,however, may no longer want to associate with Ethereum due to concerns over itshigh energy usage and gas costs.

Allen tweeted that Solana is a proof-of-stake chain that addressesthese concerns, pointing out that a single transaction on Solana "uses as much energy as a Google search andcosts a fraction of a penny."

Behance first enabled its artists to connecttheir crypto wallet and NFTs to their Behance profile in October 2021.

Adobe also partnered with Rarible, OpenSea, KnownOrigin andSuperRare NFT marketplaces as part of the company's "Content AuthenticityInitiative" to protect digital creators by displaying provenancedata. Allen added on Twitter that Solana addresses will be added to the ContentCredentials tool in Photoshop to combat NFT artwork getting stolen and ensurethat proper credit is given.

According to the QuickNode website, the company is the topSolana node service provider and it powers more than 50% of the Solana ecosystem.

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