Metaplex, the Solana ecological NFT platform, announced the launch of the new NFT standard Core on the Solana chain, which has been launched on Devnet.
Designed specifically for NFTs, Core enables the storage of critical data in an on-chain account, reducing computational requirements, increasing throughput and helping to improve Solana network efficiency. Core is fully supported by the Metaplex developer platform and can be seamlessly integrated with a set of SDKs and utilities. It plans to launch on the mainnet next week, and will also add support for Candy Machine, DAS, Umi, and Amman.
Additionally, Metaplex announced that 50% of protocol fees will be used to purchase MPLX tokens and send them to the Metaplex DAO, which includes all historical and future fees.