How NFT marketplace OpenSea became a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades and $230M in NFT transactions in the first two weeks of October
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Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator HF0, whose alumni include OpenSea's founders; HF0's latest fund is $100M, up from its previous $16M fund
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After NFT sales dropped 63% YoY to $8.7B in 2023, OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer talks OpenSea 2.0, set to offer users improved differentiation between NFT categories
- NFTs have lagged behind Bitcoin in crypto resurgence — OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer said more use cases for NFTs are here
Sources: Tiger Global cut valuations of its portfolio companies in September 2023, including Superhuman by 45%, DuckDuckGo 72%, Yuga Labs 69%, and OpenSea 94%
The nearly $13 billion Private Investment Partners 15 fund marked down AI-powered email company Superhuman by 45% and cut …
Document: Coatue cut the value of its $120M OpenSea stake to $13M as of Q2 2023, implying a $1.4B valuation or less on paper, down from $13.3B in January 2022
One of OpenSea's biggest investors has marked down by 90% its stake in the struggling non-fungible-token marketplace …
Nansen: payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023, as OpenSea and Blur cut royalty rates amid a bear market
- Payouts to NFT content creators sank 98% from a peak in 2022 — Exchanges for NFTs chopped royalty rates amid a bear market Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Bluesky: @blueheronhollow.bsky.social . X...
OpenSea temporarily drops marketplace fees to compete with no-fee marketplace Blur, which on February 15 beat OpenSea in daily trading volume for the first time
The top NFT marketplace's policy shift stems from competition with popular zero-fee marketplace Blur.
OpenSea briefly removes marketplace fees to compete with no-fee marketplace Blur, which topped OpenSea in daily trading volume on February 15 for the first time
The top NFT marketplace's policy shift stems from competition with popular zero-fee marketplace Blur.
Miami-based QuickNode, whose blockchain deployment tools are used by Twitter, OpenSea, Coinbase, Adobe, and others, raised a $60M Series B at an $800M valuation
QuickNode, a blockchain deployment platform, has raised $60 million in a Series B round for an $800 million valuation …