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In December 2020, OpenSea announced that any user could mint NFTs on its platform for free. Later, in March 2021, OpenSea announced NFT collections would not need to be approved to be listed; this decision was later criticized for allowing rampant plagiarism on the platform. [36] On September 17, 2021, OpenSea released an app for Android and iOS.
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] In April 2023, the net worths of both founders were estimated to have fallen to less than $600 million each following a steep decline in OpenSea's ...
The first known "NFT", Quantum, [25] was created by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash in May 2014. It consists of a video clip made by McCoy's wife, Jennifer. McCoy registered the video on the Namecoin blockchain and sold it to Dash for $4, during a live presentation for the Seven on Seven conferences at the New Museum in New York City.
(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.
The top NFT marketplace plants a flag in the ground for creator royalties—but only after taking flak for considering otherwise. OpenSea Pledges to Enforce NFT Royalties After Creator Backlash ...
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), often colloquially called Bored Apes or Bored Ape is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection built on the Ethereum blockchain with the ERC-721 standard. The collection features profile pictures of cartoon apes that are procedurally generated by an algorithm.
Data from OpenSea shows the volume of NFT sales dropped more than 90% from their peak in January 2022 to Aug. 1 of this year. NFTs are built on the same programming as cryptocurrencies, ...
The concept of non-fungible digital assets that could be owned on a blockchain predated ERC-721, with projects like Colored Coins on Bitcoin in 2012. [7] In 2017, just prior to ERC-721’s publication, Larva Labs launched the CryptoPunks NFT project on Ethereum using ERC-20 (a fungible token standard).