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In 2021, following a heightened interest in non-fungible tokens, the company's revenue reached $95 million in February 2021 and $2.75 billion in September of that year. By January 2022, the company had been valued at $13.3 billion and has been considered the largest non-fungible token marketplace.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NFT kingpin OpenSea lands monster $13.3B valuation in new raise |url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/nft-kingpin-opensea-lands-13-3b-valuation-in-300m-raise-from-paradigm-and-coatue/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Isaac |first=Mike |date=2022-01-05 |title=OpenSea valued at $13.3 billion in new round of venture funding. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/business/opensea-13-billion-valuation-venture-funding.html |access-date=2022-04-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The daily trading volume on the OpenSea marketplace reached a record $2.7 billion on May 1, 2022, but four months later had dropped by 99%. In 2021, following a heightened interest in non-fungible tokens, the company's revenue reached $95 million in February 2021 and $2.75 billion in September of that year. By January 2022, the company had been valued at $13.3 billion and has been considered the largest non-fungible token marketplace.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NFT kingpin OpenSea lands monster $13.3B valuation in new raise |url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/nft-kingpin-opensea-lands-13-3b-valuation-in-300m-raise-from-paradigm-and-coatue/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Isaac |first=Mike |date=2022-01-05 |title=OpenSea valued at $13.3 billion in new round of venture funding. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/business/opensea-13-billion-valuation-venture-funding.html |access-date=2022-04-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The daily trading volume on the OpenSea marketplace reached a record $2.7 billion on May 1, 2022, but four months later had dropped by 99%.

According to the market data, the overall sales volume of NFTs has plummeted from $17 billion in January 2022 to $466 million in September 2022. Yet, the OpenSea NFT marketplace has remained reasonably healthy, generating $144 million in the third quarter of this year despite the market disaster.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 10, 2022 |title=As OpenSea’s NFT sales drop by over 60%, the company’s CFO has decided to leave the company |work=The Post W3B |url=https://thepostw3b.com/nft-updates/as-opensea-nft-sales-drop-by-over-60-percent-cfo-quits/}}</ref>


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In October 2022 OpenSea announced the release of bulk buying and listing feature that allows customers to list and buy over 30 items in one go.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cryptonewsz.com/opensea-is-officially-live-with-bulk-listing/ | title=OpenSea is Officially Live with Bulk Listing | date=5 October 2022 }}</ref> In October 2022 OpenSea announced the release of bulk buying and listing feature that allows customers to list and buy over 30 items in one go.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cryptonewsz.com/opensea-is-officially-live-with-bulk-listing/ | title=OpenSea is Officially Live with Bulk Listing | date=5 October 2022 }}</ref>

On October 2022, as OpenSea’s NFT sales dropped by over 60%, the company lost its CFO after only 10 months, with Brian Roberts announcing his resignation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 10, 2022 |title=As OpenSea’s NFT sales drop by over 60%, the company’s CFO has decided to leave the company |pages=1 |work=The Post W3B |url=https://thepostw3b.com/nft-updates/as-opensea-nft-sales-drop-by-over-60-percent-cfo-quits/}}</ref>


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* {{Official website|https://www.opensea.io}} * {{Official website|https://www.opensea.io}}
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American non-fungible token marketplace
OpenSea
Company typePrivate
Founded2017
HeadquartersUnited States
Area servedWorldwide
Key people
Websitehttps://opensea.io

OpenSea is an American online non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace headquartered in New York City. The company was founded by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah in 2017.

OpenSea offers a marketplace allowing for non-fungible tokens to be sold directly at a fixed price, or through an auction, based on the Ethereum ERC-721 standard, the layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum Polygon, the KIP-7 standard for Klaytn, and the SPL standard for Solana.

In 2021, following a heightened interest in non-fungible tokens, the company's revenue reached $95 million in February 2021 and $2.75 billion in September of that year. By January 2022, the company had been valued at $13.3 billion and has been considered the largest non-fungible token marketplace. The daily trading volume on the OpenSea marketplace reached a record $2.7 billion on May 1, 2022, but four months later had dropped by 99%.

History

After a 2018 pre-seed round by Y Combinator, OpenSea raised $2.1 million in venture capital (including from Animoca Brands) in November 2019.

In December 2020, OpenSea announced that any user can mint NFTs on its platform for free. Later, in March 2021, OpenSea announced NFT collections would not need to be approved to be listed; this decision was later criticized for allowing rampant NFT plagiarism on the platform.

On September 17, 2021, OpenSea released an app for Android and iOS. The app allows for browsing the marketplace, but not buying or selling NFTs. The same month, OpenSea admitted that an employee engaged in insider trading. OpenSea's Head of Product hoarded NFTs just before they were featured in the homepage.

In January 2022, OpenSea acquired Ethereum wallet-maker Dharma Labs, and 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.

On January 27, 2022, OpenSea announced it would limit how many NFTs a user can create using the free minting tool. The following day, OpenSea reversed the decision following user backlash and later admitted that 80% of NFTs created with the tool were plagiarism or spam.

On February 19, 2022, some users began to report that some of their NFTs disappeared. OpenSea later revealed a phishing attack had took place on its platform via an exploit in the Wyvern Platform. The company denied rumors the source of the theft was their website, its listing systems, emails from the company, or an upgraded contract system. On February 20, 2022, news reporting alleged that $1.7 million in NFTs had been stolen in the phishing attack.

In March 2022, OpenSea announced that it would block accounts subject to United States sanctions.

In April 2022, OpenSea gave users the ability to buy and sell popular Solana NFTs on OpenSea's Solana beta. This feature was announced back in November 2021.

On April 25, 2022, OpenSea announced the acquisition of the NFT marketplace aggregator company Gem.xyz.

In June 2022, former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain was charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with an insider trading scheme of digital assets.

On 30 June 2022 OpenSea reported a massive email data breach after a Customer.io staff member misused his employee access to download and share email addresses of OpenSea’s users. Over 1.8 million email addresses are said to been leaked.

On 14 July 2022, chief executive Devin Finzer tweeted that the company was cutting one in five of its employees.

The daily volume of NFT transactions on OpenSea peaked at $2.7 billion on May 1, 2022, but then dropped by 99% within four months to just $9.34 million on August 28, with daily users down a third to 24,020.

In October 2022 OpenSea announced the release of bulk buying and listing feature that allows customers to list and buy over 30 items in one go.

Funding

Funding rounds
Date Amount
(millions of $)		 From Notes
2018 Y Combinator, Animoca Brands Pre-seed round
November 2019 2.1 Multiple sources
March 2021 23 Andreessen Horowitz, others Series A
July 2021 100 Andreessen Horowitz, others Series B; valued at $1.5 billion
January 2022 300 Paradigm and Coatue Management, others Valuation at $13.3 billion

Attacks on the platform

In mid February, 2022, The Verge reported that hundreds of NFTs were stolen from OpenSea users causing a huge panic among the platform community. The estimated value of the stolen tokens is more than $1.7 million. According to OpenSea, only 32 users had been affected.

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