Author

Alex Atallah

Alex is the co-founder and CTO of OpenSea, the first and largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). OpenSea graduated from the YCombinator W18 batch, raised a seed round from Founders Fund, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase, 1confirmation and others, and now powers the marketplaces or sites for over 200 games and services. Prior to OpenSea, Alex was the CTO of hostess.fm (sold to Beatport in 2014) and built cybersecurity products at Palantir for 2 years. Alex loves hackathons, bringing unusual prototypes to market, and architecting + scaling real-time infrastructure.