OpenSea walks back on IPO plan following community backlash
OpenSea’s new CFO Brian Roberts faced a firestorm of complaints from the NFT community based on what he said was "inaccurately reported" comments. The world’s top nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has denied it intends to pursue a public listing any time soon.Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Brian Roberts sparked a public backlash this week when he told Bloomberg that “it would be foolish not to think about going public.” The statement caused an uproar among OpenSea's crypto native NFT community, many of who see a public listing of the platform as a sell out to large institutional....
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OpenSea's critics said the policy change stifled NFT creators by trashing the ability to create unlimited collections and NFTs on the platform. NFT marketplace OpenSea has backflipped on a controversial decision to limit the number of NFTs and collections creators can mint using its smart contract.The platform previously allowed unlimited collections and items, but changed its policy to only allow five NFT collections with 50 items per collection when using OpenSea’s collection storefront contract.The unexpected announcement from OpenSea’s Twitter Support account, posted on Jan. 27, stated....
The NFT marketplace has clarified its stance on creator royalties after receiving significant public backlash from an earlier post. NFT marketplace OpenSea has announced it will continue to enforce royalties across all collections going forward, following outcry from creators earlier this week for considering otherwise. On Nov. 7 OpenSea announced they were launching an on-chain tool allowing creators to enforce royalties for any new collections on the platform, but stopped short of offering the same to existing collections.At the time, the marketplace said it would be considering options....
The crypto community is known to be particularly sleuth-y, and the NFT loyalists within that community are no exception. Throughout recent days, some detail-oriented individuals spotted some suspect behavior out of a new NFT project, ‘Squiggles.’ The NFTs have since been delisted from OpenSea, and as a project at large, Squiggles are likely to slowly […]
Amiss the market chaos, there is still room for NFT royalty chatter. OpenSea has announced that creator royalties will maintain as they have been on the marketplace, feeding what seems to be a ‘closing loop’ on what has been a continual hot topic around the NFT community lately. The move comes as OpenSea competitors sought […]
On September 15, the top non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, Opensea, revealed that an Opensea executive profited from insider trading. “Yesterday we learned that one of our employees purchased items that they knew were set to display on our front page before they appeared there publicly,” Opensea informed the public on Wednesday. Opensea did not name the employee, but social media posts accused an Opensea executive of using “secret wallets” on Tuesday. Opensea Team Says NFT Market Operators Are ‘Incredibly Disappointed’ Opensea is the leading....