Alex Atallah
@xanderatallah
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Experiments: @openrouterai + @windowai_io . Previously: co-founder & CTO @OpenSea .
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1/ Excited to launch an experiment today - introducing Window, a way to use your own AI models on the web - including local ones!
It's a bet on a new kind of AI app emerging, one that shifts model authentication and management to the user.
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OpenSea has now passed Etsy in volume, with $1b so far in August
NFTs are rapidly catching up to all of eBay
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1/ There are now more NFTs on OpenSea than there were websites on the internet in 2010.
Very soon, NFTs will outnumber websites, maybe even webpages. This growth has major implications for how we should index NFTs...
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The NFT space hit two all-time highs for developer activity in the past 10 days.
Devs don’t slow down in bear markets - if anything, it’s a smart time to start. 1/2
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Excited to officially announce the NFT Security Group.
Web3 security is a community effort, so we’re partnering w/ more than 15 companies & projects to share vulnerabilities and fixes before they reach other platforms.
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NFTs are eating the internet.
In addition to all the popular use cases, there are so many in the works: usernames, fonts, ad space, community badges, subscriber content…
There’s no reason not to treasure digital like physical. Every “thing” that can have property rights, will!
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Even though Ethereum NFTs are getting more of a public spotlight, 27% of NFT creators are choosing to use
@0xPolygon
with the OpenSea collection manager now
This is up from 4% at the beginning of August 📈
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Some news: I’ll be stepping away from OpenSea next month, but remain on the board.
With a team in place that I trust & our new VP of Eng,
@markoiskander
, joining next week, I’m ready to build again from 0 to 1.
More in the update I shared with the team:
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1/ I’m very excited to officially announce OpenSea Ventures, our initiative to advance Web3 outside the bounds of the company:
Here's why investment in Web3 is important to us:
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One of the many exciting possibilities that
@0xPolygon
is helping to bring to NFTs on
@opensea
:
I’m most excited to see more free & low priced NFT offerings... it’s a massive win-win for creators and collectors. Creativity in our space is going to go 📈📈📈
#NFTCommunity
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And just like that, AI twitter discovers crypto twitter
Yo what is cooking here? Someone made $32k in a day fine tuning LLMs? Wild if true
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NFTs are the beginning of a new Internet, and now we can really get serious about it!
So far it's been a fast-growing community of early adopters. Come help us make this work for the world 👇
Announcing Series C! We’re building the friendliest & most trusted NFT marketplace with the best selection across many chains. The funding helps us accelerate product development, improve trust & safety, and invest deeply in the web3 community & ecosystem.
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Three record days in a row on OpenSea, with $195m in volume today.
Every day is a new adventure for NFTs... Join us!
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We're excited to have
@a16z
join us in our mission to empower digital creators and internet-native economies, along with
@mcuban
,
@tferriss
,
@naval
,
@3lau
,
@standardcrypto
, our existing investors, and many others!
Help us build the best-possible team:
We’re excited to announce we’re leading the $23 million Series A for
@opensea
, the largest marketplace for NFTs; making them searchable, usable, and organized - bringing all platforms together.
@katie_haun
teams up with
@dfinzer
&
@xanderatallah
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We finally decided to explain OpenSea to the world :)
OpenSea. The marketplace with everything for everyone.
Here's what we're all about ↯
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Announcing our Series B. We've grown the
@opensea
team to over thirty people now. Here's the background story (1/9):
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We released a shiny new tutorial for creating your own NFT smart contract (ERC-721) for use on OpenSea & other marketplaces.
Technologies used:
-
@HardhatHQ
-
@IPFS
-
@AlchemyPlatform
-
@OpenZeppelin
... ethers.js & more. Get started here:
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Startup idea: a neutral company that benchmarks LLMs, but doesn't make one.
Could charge model companies to run expensive eval suites. Becomes the most trusted source of evals. Buys data that was never used to train anything.
Anyone want to do this or know someone who is?
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OpenSea in serious need of a Head of Customer Success. We have more inbound now than we can possibly manage.
If you have a lot of experience doing this, are curious and thoughtful, and are excited about helping both top-tier creators and indie artists issue NFTs, please DM!
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Pick a version of the future that's inevitable, and work on it
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23,000 NFT transactions on
@opensea
and less than $1 spent on gas...
Chat with
@cybourgeoisie
to see how they did it :)
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Newly launched and highly requested: Featured Sections!
Now you can create custom galleries with the NFTs you own on
@opensea
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Since we launched gas-free NFT creation in late December, the # made on
@opensea
has been growing 120% per week. 100k+ created just last week!
Check out our new guide here:
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Thrilled to welcome
@NadavAHollander
and the
@Dharma_HQ
team to OpenSea as we enter our next phase of growth. NFTs are the entry point for mainstream consumer adoption of web3 and crypto, and ultimately our union will help expedite adoption.
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Imagine a tradable API key with limited supply that gives you access to multiple services run by different companies.
...
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This is the first AI agent I've used that feels like a real, useful person is on the other end.
Getting status updates like "Looking in the docs for how to set up the Docker container" and "Fixing an issue with connecting to the database," plus having visibility on what Devin is…
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.
Devin is…
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NFT-Gating: an under-appreciated application for NFTs is transferrable on-chain permissioning.
The
@graphprotocol
just NFT-gated the ability to publish new versions and update metadata 👀
NFTs here:
NFT use cases are evolving. Transfer of subgraph ownership is now possible with unique NFTs 💥
This enables devs building with larger teams & DAOs to collaborate on subgraph development more effectively 🤝
Learn about the feature:
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Today at we announced the creation of an NFT Security group.
Web3 security is a multi-company effort.
This group will share vulnerabilities and fixes before they reach other platforms, and benefit from the ones we at
@opensea
have found so far. 1/2
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4/ Here's a demo of a Window-powered ChatGPT clone *running Alpaca.cpp locally*
Comparing its math abilities to GPT-4's:
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One of the best ZK programming tutorials I've found:
@MinaProtocol
's TypeScript interface makes circuits feel like rediscovering functional programming
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Creators are becoming founders. NFTs are their mini-products
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Today Twitter becomes one of the first social networks to build NFTs into the app itself
Powered by OpenSea 🐳
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Looking back at 2021: it was an incredible turning point for OpenSea, NFTs, and Web3 as a whole.
A few of my favorite moments… 1/8
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Letting users switch between LLMs on a public
@streamlit
app. Aimed for a simple, zero-cost dev setup:
1. No LLM API keys needed.
2. Uses only standard dependencies like openai and
@LangChainAI
, even for Claude/PaLM.
Playground URL:
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Wanna launch NFTs on
@0xPolygon
with your own smart contract? check out this great tutorial 👇
As a bonus, have your contract implement meta-transactions so owners can make transfers on
@opensea
for free:
👨🏫 Here is easiest way to mint custom🎟 NFTs and have them show up in 🐳
@opensea
!
🤔 The secret is 🟪
@0xPolygon
!
🔥 Absolute fire 🏗 scaffold-eth speed run with my dude
@XianganH
!
🎀 HAPPY BTF! cc
@xanderatallah
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There are now 988,446 unique wallets that own NFTs...
▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯ 98.8%
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Would like to get your feedback about
@opensea
's community:
• Is it friendly & helpful?
• Are we on the right social platforms?
• Can you easily find educational guides & resources?
• Collectors: do you discover great NFTs?
• Creators: are you finding long-term collectors?
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Web1: Webpages. Amplify shared interests
Web2: Webapps. Amplify shared communication
Web3: Dapps. Amplify shared incentives
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So you heard about NFTs. You have some ideas for your own, and lots of questions. You don’t know where to start or what tools are out there.
Step 1: Check out the NFT Bible.
Step 2: Ask questions in this thread! (or DM)
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Apply here to lead developer relations at
@OpenSea
:
Help a new generation of developers build thriving, decentralized businesses & NFT-powered communities.
Or tag someone who'd be great at it! 🙇♂️🙇♀️
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Ecosystems of NFT collections are emerging on OpenSea
Check out trending collections within
@artblocks_io
:
Art Blocks curated collections are now their own collections on OpenSea! Making it a lot easier to monitor floor prices and sales! 🎉
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Update: we still believe this was a phishing attack, and it impacted 32 users 2 hours ago.
A thread on the latest updates:
Another thread with some technical details:
We'll continue monitoring, and posting updates.
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Took a few clicks for me to migrate my Solana NFTs to the new collection standard.
They showed up on OpenSea automatically. Exciting to sea!
Big news for Solana creators: we now support
@metaplex
Certified Collections (MCC) in our Solana beta! Any collection that adopts MCC will now automatically appear on OpenSea with a clean, shoppable collection page. And 1k+ existing MCC collections are now live. 🎉
Details ↯
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Don’t look at NFTs as a way of “monetizing” an existing community.
NFTs create new communities (that will eventually outgrow existing ones 🙂).
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The
@OpenSea
API is now serving 1 billion requests per week, doubling in traffic since May.
This free API powers the NFTs displayed on mobile wallets, games, art platforms, & even other marketplaces.
Get started:
Contribute to v2:
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Telling a neural network to make art “rendered in Unreal Engine” & “trending on ArtStation” produces some 🔥 results
Will be interesting if adding "NFT sold for over $100k" changes the output one day...
Image found by
@ak92501
on Big Sleep:
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A reporter for a major news site is working on a piece about 3 millennial NFT creators – aiming for people "between the ages of 33 and 39 that aren’t mega-famous with fanbases but were able to succeed within the space"
If you'd like to be considered, reply here and I'll forward!
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Crypto is the laws of physics for the internet.
The NFT world is its chemistry.
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NFTs are supposed to be a revolution *against* platforms.
Creators should own the relationship with their users.
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NFTs are a new primitive data type for the web.
Just like other primitives (webpages, streaming media, cryptocurrencies...), they birthed a brand new generation of creators and businesses.
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For others considering similar NFT drops, this issue is preventable: “require(msg.sender == tx.origin)”
Adidas dropped their first NFT today.
The sale was capped at a max of 2 items per person and it sold out in less than a second
One person was able to purchase 330 in a single transaction using a custom smart contract
Quick 🧵 on how they did it
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This is a pretty significant tweet. Huge backlash happening from people in tech, but no one is able to refute the numbers.
A grim month: 31 Israeli and at least 3600 Palestinian children have been killed since October 7.
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Made a simple OpenSea floor price oracle using
@chainlink
. Anyone want to productize it?
@moonbirds_xyz
floor price example:
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Observed a similar insight as
@avichal
with developer activity in the NFT space: peaks occur after peak volume (by about 1 month).
Remarkable growth in unique contract creators, for just Ethereum, Polygon, and Klaytn:
5/ Unsurprisingly, developer growth goes up with price.
More surprising: monthly active developers peak AFTER peak prices. Last time devs peaked one year after price!
Most surprising: overall devs stay flat when prices collapse. Incoming devs balance churn in bear markets.
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Even if you've never visited OpenSea before, you can go to " /[Your_ENS_Name].eth", if you have an
@ensdomains
, and instantly see your NFTs
This is the power of Web3
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7/ Comparing NFTs to webpages is a false equivalency in many ways. But this shows how indexing and searching NFTs could be the next Google-scale big data problem.
If working on this is interesting to you, check out our job postings here:
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Excited to announce that NFT creators can now freeze their images, videos, & traits to decentralized storage on OpenSea, providing even more permanence & persistence to NFTs
Collectors can see when metadata is backed by
@Filecoin
or
@ArweaveTeam
Details:
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✨ is now live on the Chrome store ✨
It's a new way to build AI apps: users choose the model, and developers don't have to pay.
Check out apps launched in the last two weeks below.
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Announcing the OpenSea Stream API, a brand-new way of accessing NFT data 💦
This high-scale websocket (in beta) unlocks exciting new applications:
🔵 Push notifications for wallets
📊 Real-time analytics & monitoring
🚨 Ownership change detection
...and more! No polling needed
⚡️ Today we’re launching a beta version of the Stream API, a new websocket-based service that enables developers to receive events as they occur across our marketplace. 👇🧵1/5
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Some NFTs are fads, some have lasted over 3 years, and some will last forever. Just like websites, minus the last part
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Underrated NFT developer tutorial from
@Chainlink
. Teaches you how to create:
🎲 verifiably-random NFTs,
🌄 with metadata on
@IPFS
,
🌊 deployed to
@opensea
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The economics of NFT communities:
When an online community is fixed in size instead of growing unbounded, each member can directly increase the value of their membership (e.g. by building, marketing, or operating).
Fixed supply + increasing demand = increased per-unit value.
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After
@3LAU
's drop last night, the February ethereum NFT market passed $300m. That's 7450% growth from last year...
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Just a friendly reminder to please use google before you decide to skip our support channels and email us "URGENT: How do I mint NFTs?"
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"We're thinking about leaving ____ and going full Ethereum." Have been getting this message a ton this year.
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We’ve been really excited to watch the
@flow_blockchain
ecosystem develop and see feedback incorporated from the community.
In case it's helpful, here are some initial observations we’ve made in the process of preparing
@opensea
for NFTs made on Flow:
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Also important and not mentioned below: the app is very, very fast 🏎
📱 Introducing the OpenSea mobile app!
Discover NFTs by category, track the latest drops, and follow the collections you love.
App Store:
Google Play store:
Details ↯
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It’s not hard to get exposure for your NFTs if they’re wildly unique.
Most problems are product problems, not marketing ones.
People will promote unique products for you.
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DM me if you’d like access to
@opensea
’s beta storefront manager (an ERC1155 minter)
Looking for feedback, particularly from visual artists, sound artists, and animators! No crypto experience needed.
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Interested in learning more about people building on the Solana SPL token standard.
Has anyone found it limiting? Have there been any proposed changes? Where do people discuss it? cc
@rajgokal
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Devin by
@cognition_labs
just cloned my private github codebase, learned it, and made a small but tricky change in one shot.
Then it asked for a key to run the end to end tests.
The vector matters so much more than our current point in time.
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Anthropic's Claude model just surpassed GPT-4 in usage on
@windowai_io
, since its launch two days ago.
Fun to see apps suddenly become more usable, without any code changes!
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Fandom should appreciate over time. The fan you’ve had for 10 yrs is prob more valuable than one from yesterday.
But in social media, the two are treated the same: as followers.
NFTs solve this. No matter which platform you use, there’s an on-chain record of how early you were
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Even if your NFT idea doesn’t pan out, being the “first to ___” has inherent collector value. That’s not the case with most other industries.
This is one of the most exciting and distinctive features of NFTs: people are directly incentivized to experiment.
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Charted the growth of the NFT developer landscape, for both ERC721 & ERC1155
Rocky, but exciting. And importantly, it does not track the price of ETH :)
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next week will be like when you finally meet coworkers in person who've you only DM'd for years... but applied to the entire metaverse.
Excited to see everyone in person! Come find us there.
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Decentralization and customer support live in constant tension with one another. Web3 companies often don't have the permissions to effectively help users with their problems.
Resolving this tension in a safe way seems like a huge opportunity.
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Our first registered user (joined Jan 10, 2018)
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Window (bring-your-own-models to the web) is now open-source 🙂
The README explains how to make apps, how to find them today, how to set up local models, and more.
Learn more + play with a demo at .
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For just NFTs created on
@OpenSea
directly, the # of sales hit an all-time record last week, growing 8x in one month!
The biggest categories were collectibles followed by art.
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Many of the most exciting projects I've found have nearly unreadable codebases.
Unique minds often ignore coding conventions.
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6/ All this means:
There may eventually be MANY more NFTs than webpages on the internet.
It will be an exciting new challenge to help users find the NFTs they’re looking for, regardless of chain. Using on-chain data to score results will require brand new algorithms for web3.
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The cofounder of Zynga (creator of FarmVille) joins Reddit in building on Ethereum:
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Beyond excited to welcome Brian to our team as CFO!
Will help us make NFTs more accessible to a much larger audience
Great coverage by
@lizette_chapman
It's official: my next chapter will be spent at
@OpenSea
, helping
@dfinzer
,
@xanderatallah
, and team shape the future of NFTs, web3 and the digital economy.
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2/ Some context:
• In the year 2000, there were 17 million websites & 400m users online
• In 2010, there were ~200 million websites & ~2b users
• Today, there are nearly 250 million searchable NFTs on OpenSea, & just a sliver of the internet's users
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OpenSea's thirty-day volume has passed $13m, = annualized run rate at $156 million!
We're a seed-stage team of just 11 people, but actively hiring for community managers & dev positions.
Apply here if you're interested - now is the time to be "early".
NFTs on OpenSea are breaking all-time records!
Yesterday saw $1.9m in sales volume 🤯
We're also seeing more unique visitors on the site than ever before, with over 356k users in just January.
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Interactive NFTs should get more attention. Listing 3 of my favorites below - what are yours?
🔱 F473 by
@coin_artist
, launched on
@0xPolygon
. Includes a music player that aligns well with the art.
@opensea
added support for full
@IPFS
web-apps for this:
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A reminder: you can benefit from OpenSea’s secondary market even if you make an off-platform NFT contract. Just find it & set royalties on !
One of
@beeple
’s collections has done over $10m in secondary sales on OS
Contact us if yours doesn’t appear there
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NFTs are the new internet
AMA with
@opensea
tonight at 8pm:
Help us grow the world's first & largest NFT platform:
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Getting a covid test in NYC, and the couple next to me is talking about NFT discoverability
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