Sequence Marketplace
Infrastructure-style marketplace record useful for reading aggregator and tooling boundaries.
Open record →Guide
What is an NFT marketplace aggregator?
Aggregators are discovery and routing layers around marketplaces.
This guide explains how NFT marketplace aggregators differ from single marketplaces, why they matter historically, and how Minted & Gone records them.
This guide is educational. It does not verify current liquidity, asset availability, trading safety, ownership, or marketplace reliability.
Short answer
An aggregator collects marketplace visibility into one interface
An NFT marketplace aggregator usually helps users discover, compare, or route listings across multiple marketplaces or liquidity sources. It may not be the original marketplace for every listed asset. Its historical record can depend on both its own interface and the marketplaces it indexed.
For Minted & Gone, this means aggregator records need careful wording: an aggregator page can change without proving that every underlying marketplace, collection, token, or listing disappeared.
Related glossary terms
Key terms for this guide
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Open record →Aggregated listings
An aggregator may show listings from multiple marketplaces instead of hosting every listing directly.
Routing surface
Some aggregators help users find or route trades across marketplaces, protocols, or liquidity sources.
Marketplace dependency
If an indexed marketplace changes, closes, or removes listings, the aggregator view may also change.
Independent interface
An aggregator can remain active even when one underlying marketplace becomes inactive or disappears.
Archive complexity
Archived aggregator pages may preserve a view of listings, but they do not prove the underlying marketplace is still active.
M&G classification
Minted & Gone records aggregators as marketplace infrastructure or aggregator-style marketplace records when they are central to marketplace history.
Why aggregators matter
They preserve and reshape how marketplace history is seen
Aggregators can become the main way users discover listings across many marketplaces. When an aggregator closes, changes ownership, or rebrands, the historical trail can split between the aggregator interface and the underlying marketplace records. Minted & Gone should record both layers when the sources support it.
How M&G records it
Aggregator records should answer dependency questions
- Does the product primarily aggregate listings from other marketplaces?
- Does it also host its own marketplace or trading surface?
- Which marketplaces, chains, or ecosystems did it index?
- Did it shut down, merge, rebrand, or get acquired?
- Did its closure affect how users found older NFT listings?
If the evidence only proves that an aggregator interface changed, the record should not claim that all indexed marketplaces or assets changed with it.
Aggregator closed
This can mean the unified discovery or routing interface ended. It does not automatically prove that every underlying marketplace stopped operating.
Underlying market changed
If an indexed marketplace closes or changes listing behavior, the aggregator view may lose coverage even if the aggregator itself remains active.
Acquired or rebranded
Aggregator products often become part of larger marketplace stacks. M&G records acquisition and rebrand paths as continuity signals, not automatic disappearance.
Related reading
Use aggregator records with layer-specific guides
Aggregator history is easiest to read alongside the guides on shutdowns, frontend layers, old page checks, and NFT disappearance claims.