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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.
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]
Coinbase moved into the NFT space in competition with OpenSea, which emerged in 2021 as the biggest NFT marketplace. In September, 2021, OpenSea racked up $2.8 billion in NFT trades .
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 ]
OpenSea, one of the leading NFT marketplaces, has suffered a so-called exploit -- the described exploit enabling users to purchase NFTs from users at well below market value. NFTs with a market ...
(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.
In late 2021, the popularity of Bored Apes spurred copycat NFT projects. PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club were two such projects centered around the same idea of selling NFTs of mirrored but otherwise identical images of Bored Ape NFTs. [42] The OpenSea NFT marketplace banned both projects in December 2021. [42]
The value of these sales would be nearly $3.2 million today. Additionally, Trump earns a 10% royalty fee on secondary sales of these NFTs, which has netted his wallet an additional 782.32 ETH, or ...