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OpenSea is an American non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace headquartered in New York City.The company was founded by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah in 2017. [2] [3]OpenSea offers a marketplace online allowing for non-fungible tokens to be sold directly at a fixed price, or through an auction.
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 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 ...
(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 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.
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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.
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 ...