The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially ended its investigation into OpenSea without filing charges. OpenSea’s CEO, Devin Finzer, described this move as a victory for the NFT industry. The SEC is closing its investigation into @opensea. This is a win for everyone who is creating and building
OpenSea has regained dominance in the Ethereum NFT marketplace, capturing 71.5% of the market share this past week. Four weeks ago, it held only 25.5%, with Blur leading the space. The surge aligns with OpenSea’s announcement of its long-awaited native token, $SEA, on Feb. 13. Since the announcement, OpenSea’s daily
In June 2022, OpenSea, a popular NFT marketplace, had a serious data breach. An employee at Customer.io, the company that handles OpenSea’s emails, leaked over seven million email addresses of OpenSea users to an outside party. At first, OpenSea warned users about the leak, but the full list of affected
The Executive R0AR Society NFT collection is gearing up for launch on the Opensea Launchpad. The R0AR decentralized finance platform has a range of features and use cases, including an Ethereum DEX, yield farming, and a DAO. Holders of the ERS collection will be able to access exclusive features and
A group of OpenSea users has filed a class-action lawsuit in Miami. The lawsuit claims that the popular NFT marketplace sold unregistered securities. This legal action raises significant concerns about the regulatory landscape for NFTs. According to the lawsuit, OpenSea is accused of facilitating transactions that qualify as securities sales.
Pudgy Penguins is a prominent Web3 brand featuring a collection of 8,888 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) launched on the Ethereum blockchain. The CEO of Pudgy Penguins recently described the SEC’s crackdown on NFTs as “nonsense,” asserting that he remains unworried by the regulatory actions taken by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its regulations in the cryptocurrency sector by issuing a Wells notice to OpenSea, a leading NFT marketplace. This indicates that the SEC is considering legal action against the platform, alleging that the NFTs traded on OpenSea might be under unregistered securities.
OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace, has experienced a significant downturn, in trading volume for Ethereum-based NFTs. Recent data reveals that the platform has an average daily volume of approximately 600 ETH, marking its lowest point since May 2021, predating the onset of the original NFT bull market. OpenSea is doing
The volume of NFT trades in 2023 was almost half of what it had been in 2022. The figure dropped from $26.3 billion to $11.8 billion, as reported by CoinGecko. Crypto investors have mostly ignored NFTs in the last two years after the meteoric rise in value of blue chip
A major NFT marketplace, OpenSea, is working on an update to its platform called OpenSea 2.0. In light of the fact that NFT categories are always evolving in response to new use cases, CEO Devin Finzer has said that this update is an effort to improve the user experience and
