OpenSea disables features temporarily as contract migration completes
Bids and purchases are made unavailable to ensure that listings are protected until the migration completes. The week-long period that OpenSea gave users to migrate their nonfungible token (NFT) listings ends today. Following the deadline, the platform announced that some features on the site may not be available temporarily due to the migration.On Feb. 19, OpenSea pushed a new smart contract and urged users to start the migration of their NFT listings from the old contract to the new one. The NFT marketplace mentions that the upgrade brings new features such as bulk listings and more....
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