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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]
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 ...
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 ]
(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.
Development of Axie Infinity started in 2017, led by its co-founder and CEO, Nguyen Thanh Trung, alongside Tu Doan, Aleksander Larsen, Jeffrey Zirlin, and Andy Ho. [24] [25] Nguyen had previously spent money on the game CryptoKitties before he began work on his own blockchain-based game, combining elements of CryptoKitties with gameplay from the Pokémon series or Neopets.
Italian professional football club Juventus F.C. has announced their arrival on the non-fungible token (NFT) train. In a post on their official website, the club revealed its digital content would ...
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).