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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.
In September, 2021, OpenSea racked up $2.8 billion in NFT trades. And the Coinbase NFT marketplace won’t be OpenSea’s only new rival — Binance and FTX, two other cryptocurrency exchanges ...
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]
There were some NFT-like projects or "proto NFTs" that pre-date CryptoPunks; Rare Pepes, for example, was released on Counterparty in 2014. [citation needed] The economic insecurity created by the Covid-19 pandemic sharply increased trade in risky investments like NFTs. The highest NFT trading volumes were achieved between August 2021 and May ...
For selling NFTs, artists can use different NFT marketplaces and platforms, such as SuperRare, Foundation VIV3, OpenSea, NFT ShowRoom and Axie Marketplace. For art collectors, NFTs are a means of ...
Since the creation of bitcoin in 2009, the number of new cryptocurrencies has expanded rapidly. [1]The UK's Financial Conduct Authority estimated there were over 20,000 different cryptocurrencies by the start of 2023, although many of these were no longer traded and would never grow to a significant size.
(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.
He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenSea, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens. [ 1 ] 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 ]