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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.
(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.
Coinbase moved into the NFT space in competition with OpenSea, which emerged in 2021 as the biggest NFT marketplace. In September, 2021, OpenSea racked up $2.8 billion in NFT trades .
The NFT market is worth tens of billions of dollars and saw rapid growth throughout the crypto bull run. Since then, it’s been a bumpy ride for NFTs. Trading volumes have fallen over 90% from ...
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]
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]
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 ...
Coinbase is launching its long-awaited NFT marketplace Wednesday with a focus on trying to create a social community for buyers and sellers.“This product is more than just buying and selling ...