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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 ]
Later that month, OpenSea reimbursed users about $1.8 million after a user interface bug allowed users to buy more than $1 million worth of NFTs at a discount. [16] [17] On January 27, 2022, OpenSea announced it would limit how many NFTs a user could create using the free minting tool. [18] The following day, OpenSea reversed the decision. [19]
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).
An NFT is a data file, stored on a type of digital ledger called a blockchain, which can be sold and traded. [9] The NFT can be associated with a particular asset – digital or physical – such as an image, art, music, or recording of a sports event. [10] It may confer licensing rights to use the asset for a specified purpose. [11]
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]
HipHop for PHP (HPHPc) is a discontinued PHP transpiler created by Facebook. By using HPHPc as a source-to-source compiler , PHP code is translated into C++ , compiled into a binary and run as an executable , as opposed to the PHP's usual execution path of PHP code being transformed into opcodes and interpreted .
One of the 5000 images used in the artwork. Winkelmann was inspired by British artist Tom Judd and began the daily project on 1 May 2007. [14] Some of the images involve figures from pop culture, including Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump, and are arranged chronologically. [15]
The effect on application performance of opcode caching varies widely, depending on factors such as the inherent execution time of the PHP application and the percentage of source code actually executed on a given request, and whether additional optimization steps are performed.