Devin Finzer

Devin is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpenSea. Inspired by the release of CryptoKitties, Devin and Alex Atallah founded OpenSea in December 2017. Prior to founding OpenSea, Devin founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma. He has also worked as a software engineer for Pinterest.
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Changes to creator fees on OpenSea

August 17, 2023
August 17, 2023

We’re making a few changes to our approach to creator fees.

Company

Why We Don’t Mind the Dip(s)

September 13, 2022
September 13, 2022

When we started OpenSea in late 2017, we were realistic about a range of potential outcomes – from a niche community to buy and sell CryptoKitties, to a destina

Company

Welcoming Chris Dixon to our Board of Directors

July 30, 2022
July 30, 2022

I’m excited to formally welcome Chris Dixon to the OpenSea Board of Directors. Chris has been extremely influential in shaping my views on web3. I followed his

Product
Trust and Safety

Our Efforts to Curb Fraud and Plagiarism – and What’s Next

June 8, 2022
June 8, 2022

I want to share my perspective on OpenSea’s efforts to protect against plagiarism, IP infringement, and fraud. We at OpenSea feel a huge responsibility to ensur

Company

OpenSea Acquires Gem to Invest in ‘Pro’ Experience

April 25, 2022
April 25, 2022

At OpenSea, our mission is to bring the power and potential of NFTs to more people around the world. As the NFT community grows, we’ve recognized a need to bett

Product
Developer

Announcing a contract upgrade

February 18, 2022
February 18, 2022

TL;DR – We’re upgrading the smart contract we use to help address the inactive listings issue on Ethereum. The upgrade ensures that old, inactive listings expir

Company

OpenSea acquires Dharma Labs, welcomes new CTO

January 18, 2022
January 18, 2022

There’s no question that OpenSea is in build mode. 2021 was a landmark year for NFTs: the world recognized their potential as building blocks for a brand new, p

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OpenSea site reliability: January 2022

January 9, 2022
January 9, 2022

I wanted to take a moment to address the site stability challenges that OpenSea has experienced over the last few months, including this morning’s downtime. I r

Company

Announcing OpenSea’s new funding

January 4, 2022
January 4, 2022

Investment will help improve customer and community experienceIn 2021, we saw the world awaken to the idea that NFTs represent the basic building blocks for bra

Company

Introducing Brian Roberts, our new CFO

December 6, 2021
December 6, 2021

Today, I’m excited to announce that Brian Roberts has joined OpenSea as our first CFO.

Company

Announcing our $100M raise, led by a16z

July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021

It’s becoming increasingly clear that blockchains represent one of the most exciting paradigm shifts in the history of technology. Just as the Internet transfor

Product
Marketplace

Klaytn NFTs are coming to OpenSea

March 29, 2021
March 29, 2021

At OpenSea, we’re excited to support a growing, cross-chain ecosystem of user-owned digital assets. We’re excited to announce that Klaytn-based NFTs will be com

Company

OpenSea raises $23M to scale the largest marketplace for NFTs

March 18, 2021
March 18, 2021

When we started OpenSea in late 2017, we were excited about the prospect of a brand new economy on the internet. The GDP of the internet is already quite large

Product
Marketplace

Tezos NFTs are coming to OpenSea

February 10, 2021
February 10, 2021

At OpenSea, we’re excited to support a growing, cross-chain ecosystem of user-owned digital assets. We’ve been very impressed with the work that the Tezos ecosy

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Partnership

WiV Technology is bringing fine wine trading to OpenSea

January 29, 2020
January 29, 2020

We’re excited to announce our collaboration with WiV Technology, a blockchain-based platform for unique assets offering fine wine tokenization. This will be the

Creator

Splinterlands cards are now tradeable on OpenSea, with an exclusive legendary card on auction!

January 17, 2020
January 17, 2020

The Splinterlands team is very excited to announce that Splinterlands cards can now be transferred from the game to ERC-721 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain wh

Creator

Announcing the exclusive auction for Kred names

January 16, 2020
January 16, 2020

In October 2019, OpenSea partnered with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) team to sell exclusive ENS .eth names on our marketplace. For those who aren’t familiar

Community

The Non-Fungible Token Bible: Everything you need to know about NFTs

January 10, 2020
January 10, 2020

But how do OpenSea and CryptoKitties figure out what CryptoKitty #1500718 looks like? And what about its name and unique attributes?This is where metadata comes

Creator

The second Christmas Edition Stryking auction starts today

December 20, 2019
December 20, 2019

We’re excited to announce official FC Bayern Munich Player Cards (non-fungible tokens) NFTs are now for sale on OpenSea! These NFTs were created by Stryking, on

Creator

Welcoming The Godfather to OpenSea!

December 2, 2019
December 2, 2019

We’re excited to announce that The Godfather is coming to OpenSea with Terra Virtua!Remember the iconic lines “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli” and “A friend sh

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Bringing on additional strategic investors to OpenSea

November 9, 2019
November 9, 2019

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 Me

Creator

Now open! Our marketplace for Gods Unchained Cards

November 8, 2019
November 8, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Gods Unchained cards are now listable on OpenSea!For those of you who are new to the blockchain gaming space, Gods Unchained is o

Creator

Knight Story supporter badge sale launches on OpenSea

November 4, 2019
November 4, 2019

We’re excited to announce that the Knight Story supporter badge sale is live on OpenSea! Knight Story is an innovative mobile RPG powered by blockchain. The gam

Community

How to Create your own NFT Marketplace on OpenSea in Three Minutes or Less

October 28, 2019
October 28, 2019

Note: This post is out of date. You can now create an NFT Marketplace without paying gas to mint tokens. Updated instructions are here: https://opensea.io/blog/

Creator

Exclusive OpenSea auction for Epics trading cards

October 28, 2019
October 28, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Epics trading cards are now tradable on OpenSea!Epics is an Ethereum-powered platform for esports themed digital collectibles. Yo

Creator

Trade Age of Rust Items on OpenSea!

September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Age of Rust items are now tradable on OpenSea!According to the Age of Rust website, Age of Rust isA dark sci-fi adventure game se

Creator

The ENS short name auction is starting soon on OpenSea!

August 31, 2019
August 31, 2019

We’re excited to announce that the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) short name auction will be conducted on OpenSea, starting on September 1. (That’s less than 4 hou

Creator

A brand new marketplace place for ENS names. Buy and sell ENS names on OpenSea

May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019

We’re excited to announce support for ENS (Ethereum Name Service) names on OpenSea! With the recent upgrade to the ENS permanent registry, registering an ENS na

Creator

CryptoTickets, Ethereum ERC721 tickets, are live and tradeable on OpenSea

December 27, 2018
December 27, 2018

We’re super excited to announce that we’ll be issuing tickets for the upcoming NFT.NYC conference on the Ethereum blockchain as ERC721 assets, for sale on OpenS

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We've acquired Atomic Bazaar to bring real-time trading to OpenSea users

December 12, 2018
December 12, 2018

We’re super excited to announce that OpenSea has acquired Atomic Bazaar — an Ethereum digital asset marketplace focused on trading mixed sets of NFT’s. We’re br

Creator

Darkwinds is launching, with cards tradeable on the OpenSea marketplace

November 15, 2018
November 15, 2018

We’re super excited to support the Darkwinds trading card game launch. Darkwinds works with a similar system of rules used in online games like Heartstone or Ma

Company
Partnership

Announcing our partnership with Hash Rush

October 17, 2018
October 17, 2018

We’re super excited to partner with Hash Rush to host the marketplace for their in-game items. The Hash Rush team is pushing the space forward with a real-time

Creator

MyCryptoHeroes are tradeable on OpenSea

September 26, 2018
September 26, 2018

We’re excited to announce that we’re supporting MyCryptoHeroes on OpenSea. Heroes are currently tradeable here, with already over 14 ETH in volume exchanged. A