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Introducing Seaport 1.6

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OpenSea & the Seaport Working Group are excited to unveil Seaport 1.6, the latest generation of the most advanced NFT marketplace protocol in the EVM ecosystem.

Our Efforts to Prevent NFT Theft

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Trust and safety issues – specifically scams and theft – are some of the biggest barriers to broader NFT adoption today. At OpenSea, we’ve invested significant time, resources and attention to help improve authenticity and address ecosystem-wide trust challenges – to ensure today’s users are safer, and that we’re building and supporting an ecosystem that is safe and welcoming for newcomers as well.

Why We Don’t Mind the Dip(s)

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Not only is OpenSea used to bear markets, these are the conditions that made us what we are today. We have a huge opportunity in front of us, and our long-term vision makes it possible to separate good ideas from hype, builders from speculators, and signal from noise.

2021 Music NFT Sales Analysis

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The following guest post is an abridged version of “Music NFT sales in 2021: What we learned,” a longform analysis of 2021 music NFT sales conducted by the Water & Music community in April 2022.

Announcing OpenSea’s new funding

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OpenSea’s vision is to become the core destination for these new open digital economies to thrive, building the world’s friendliest and most trusted NFT marketplace with the best selection.

Control Your Own Top Level Domain on the DNS & ENS

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UNR is the world’s largest owner of NFTs representing Top Level Domains. In partnership with the Ethereum Name Service, OpenSea, and Innovative Auctions, UNR is auctioning 23 ICANN-accredited TLDs, along with their newly minted NFTs, on April 28. Don’t miss this historic event to own and operate your very own TLD on the ENS and DNS!

Create NFTs for Free on OpenSea

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The first way to create & sell NFTs for free. We have a new technique for creating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on OpenSea, where creators don’t have to pay gas. It’s the first truly-free NFT maker, and today it works directly on Ethereum.

Roll integrates OpenSea data

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We’re happy to announce that OpenSea data is now natively integrated on the Roll app for creator rewards. This allows users to view OpenSea listings for NFTs available in a particular creator’s social money on their respective rewards page.

Introducing PixelChain

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PixelChain is a decentralized app that allows any person to create 32x32 pixel art on-chain. It’s the first project in the crypto industry that enables collectors, artists, and users to easily create pixel artwork, and save 100% of the image’s information on the blockchain without depending on servers or IPFS.

Announcing the exclusive auction for Kred names

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On March 20, 2020, we're starting another ENS auction: the Kred Top Level Domain. Excitingly, Kred Domains are both ENS and DNS registered and are controlled by a Kred Domain Token. This means they can be used as regular websites in addition to ENS names. Any changes to the ENS DNS information stored against the Kred Domain Token are represented in both systems.

Bringing on additional strategic investors to OpenSea

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We’re excited to announce that OpenSea has received a strategic investment of $2.1M from Animoca Brands, gumi Cryptos, Stanford StartX, and David Pazdan from MetaMask. Many of our existing investors also contributed alongside these strategic partners, include 1Confirmation, Blockchain Capital, Brad Flora from YC, and Dylan Field from Figma. A huge thank you to our new investors and those who continue to support OpenSea!

Opera and OpenSea Collaborate on Browser-Integrated Cryptocollectible Experience

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In addition to operating the largest marketplace for digital goods, OpenSea maintains the most comprehensive API for Ethereum NFTs, contracts, events, and more. As a result, OpenSea’s API powers the collectible-focused facets of Coinbase Wallet, Trust Wallet, Balance, CryptoGoods, ToknTalk, CKBox, Vault Wallet, Bitski, Portis, and Amberdata, among others. Today, we can announce that a venerable citizen of Web 2 has joined the ranks of applications benefitting from OpenSea’s API: Opera.

The Coins & Steel crowd sale launches on OpenSea!

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We’re psyched to announce that Coins & Steel crowd sale items are now available on OpenSea: the First Forge has ignited! If you know what we’re all about and you’re already hyped, you can check out the selection here. If not, stick around to see what makes Coins & Steel’s presale on OpenSea so exciting.

Buy and sell crypto collectibles with Dai

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We’re excited to announce support for MakerDAO’s DAI token on OpenSea! Users can now use Dai to make offers, create listings, and buy items. For the initial ERC-20 rollout, we’re supporting MakerDAO’s Dai, Coinbase’s and Circle’s USDC, and Decentraland’s MANA, but we’ll be adding support for more ERC-20 tokens soon. Join us in our discord server to request your favorite token and be sure to check out our announcement of MANA support.

Chainbreakers are now tradable on OpenSea

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Chainbreakers is unusual, even among game dapps. One of its core value propositions is that it will be deeply integrated with Decentraland, and the developers have kept a VR-first mindset throughout development. The presale items can be inspected and enjoyed in three dimensions, both in the native marketplace and on OpenSea.

OpenSea raises $2 million to make true digital ownership more accessible

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After finishing up Y Combinator’s Winter batch, we’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $2 million seed round. We’re bringing on an incredible group of investors, including Founders Fund, 1confirmation, Foundation Capital, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Chernin Group, Stable Fund, Blockstack, and a number of angels from the founding teams of StubHub, Eventbrite, YouTube, Gametime, Quantstamp, and Figma.

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