Rodeo Announces Closure, Becoming The Second NFT Marketplace This Week

Moving forward, Rodeo has outlined a plan for users to move their assets and data to other platforms. Firstly, users will be able to transfer media and metadata to the blockchain data storage platform Arweave.

Rodeo will also provide an asset migration assistant, guiding users on how to transfer assets from the platforms smart contract.

Between Jan. 27 and Feb. 10, Rodeo will continue to function as usual, but from Feb. 10, the platform will switch to read-only mode. By March 10, Rodeo will be completely switched off.

This isnt the only organizational shift Tehranian has made this week, revealing on Tuesday that ownership of the NFT artist platform and gallery Foundation is being transferred to digital art platform Blackdove.

Tehranian said the project started as an experiment to see whether artists could be fairly compensated for their work online, and that it has overseen $230 million in primary sales since launch.

The founder said the platform will continue as normal, but under a leadership committed to the long-term future.

The NFT market has been in a free fall since the major crash in 2022, with only short price spikes and no sustained market resurgence. At the market peak around January 2022, Ethereum accounted for almost $5 billion in NFT trading volume, according to CryptoSlam data.

In January 2026, however, Ethereum had seen only $159.2 million in NFT trading volume.

Nifty Gateway updates wind-down plan

Meanwhile, Nifty Gateway, one of the biggest marketplaces to emerge during the early NFT market boom in 2021, has provided an update on its winding-down process following recent community feedback.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Nifty Gateway also said it will use Arweave to enable users to transfer media and metadata. Additionally, the platform is extending its deadline for moving assets to a 90-day window, ending on April 23 instead of Feb. 23.

“We are working on a bulk withdrawal tool for our customers who have multiple NFTs on our platform and will be rolling it out shortly with plenty of time to use the tool before the April 23 deadline,” Nifty Gateway said.

The platform initially announced plans to close down on Friday, but did not explicitly outline the reasons why.