# Improving the NFT purchasing process

By [NFT HUNTER](https://paragraph.com/@itismylife) · 2023-03-15

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When NFTs were gaining interest at the start of the year, the process of buying one was lengthy, difficult, and expensive. You would need to purchase enough crypto to buy the NFT you wanted, which meant going to an exchange and then transferring the funds you bought into a [browser wallet](https://metamask.io/).

There is a lot to learn and understand in that process, and a lot that could go wrong for people who aren’t used to making these transactions. No doubt it put a lot of people off from buying their first NFT. It’s one of the biggest blockers preventing mass adoption.

As interest in NFTs has grown, so have [Ethereum gas fees](https://www.moonpay.com/learn/defi/what-are-ethereum-gas-fees). Buyers can spend over $150 on top of the price of an NFT to make a transaction on the Ethereum blockchain.

To help with these transaction costs, there are some incredibly exciting developments emerging on [Layer 2 networks](https://polygon.technology/)—blockchains that run on top of the main blockchain and can confirm transactions faster and cheaper.

These Layer 2 solutions are designed to handle low-cost transactions, which is going to be a vital piece of the puzzle for mass-adoption as it lowers the barrier to entry for people all around the world.

NFTs are still very early in their maturation, but as new use cases emerge and the purchasing process is simplified, we’ll be closer than ever before to fully realizing their mass adoption.

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*Originally published on [NFT HUNTER](https://paragraph.com/@itismylife/improving-the-nft-purchasing-process)*