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(Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has threatened to sue non-fungible tokens marketplace OpenSea, the company's CEO said in a post on social media platform X on Wednesday.
Adjusted price (millions of US$) Actual price paid (millions of US$) Asset Year of creation Date of sale Seller Buyer Blockchain Notes $81.6 $69.3 Everydays: the First 5000 Days: 2021 March 11, 2021: Beeple [8] "Metakovan" (Vignesh Sundaresan) [9] Ethereum First purely NFT artwork to be offered by a major auction house, Christie's. [10] $59.3 ...
OpenSea is an American non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace headquartered in Miami. The company was founded by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah in 2017. [1] [2] OpenSea offers a marketplace online allowing for non-fungible tokens to be sold directly at a fixed price, or through an auction.
In January 2022, OpenSea raised $300 million in new series C funding, propelling the company's valuation to $13.3 billion. [13] In January 2022, Forbes estimated the stakes in OpenSea owned by Finzer and his co-founder Alex Atallah to be worth $2.2 billion each, making them the first two non-fungible token billionaires. [2]
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Crypto stocks such as Coinbase, MicroStrategy and MARA Holdings gained between 2.1% and 3.1%, tracking higher Bitcoin prices. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 1.01-to-1 ratio on the NYSE.
During the height of the breakout success of CryptoKitties and the emergence of ERC-721 tokens in 2017, an NFT marketplace called OpenSea emerged to capitalize off of the new non-fungible token standard. [47] It positioned itself early in the NFT market landscape and grew to a $1.4 billion market cap in 2021 during the then-ongoing NFT boom. [48]
After days of tiptoeing up to $100,000, Bitcoin finally surpassed the six-figure threshold and then some, rocketing to more than $102,000 in early Thursday trading.