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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.
Rare Pepe sold by Sotheby's in first auction on its Metaverse platform for NFT collectors. [26] $3.4 $3.4 BAYC #8817: 2021 October 26, 2021: Unknown Unknown Ethereum Bored Ape Yacht Club collection launched in 2021 with 10,000 works. [27] $3.9 $3.3 Fidenza #313: 2021 August 23, 2021: Unknown Unknown Ethereum Minted on Art Blocks.
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).
The top NFT marketplace plants a flag in the ground for creator royalties—but only after taking flak for considering otherwise.
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 ]
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. The parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club is Yuga Labs. [1]
Every year, celebrities try to capitalize on the holiday season by releasing festive music. Singers like Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, and Michael Bublé managed to perfect the cheesy art form.
The project's NFT collection of 8,888 ranked #1 on OpenSea's "Top NFTs" for several days, marking one of Japan's first globally successful blockchain art projects. [14] In 2023, Shinsei Galverse produced the official "I like u" music video by Grammy-nominated singer Tove Lo as an initial anime endeavor. [15]