Tagged: opensea

August 19, 2025 @ 2:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the summer of 2022, NFT (non-fungible token) platform OpenSea saw a former employee charged with pursuing a digital asset insider trading ploy. The former Product Manager was arrested and charged with wire fraud and money laundering. As outlined by the US Department of Justice,… Read More

September 5, 2024 @ 8:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, OpenSea, a popular NFT [non-fungible token] marketplace, revealed that it had received a Wells Notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The missive indicates a good probability of a forthcoming enforcement action against the firm. While NFTs are largely aligned with digital… Read More

September 3, 2024 @ 12:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

OpenSea, a leading NFT [non-fungible token] platform, has received a Wells Notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A Wells Notice indicates that the SEC is recommending that the Commission pursue enforcement action against the target firm. While not conclusive, it is highly likely… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, announced via Twitter and a blog post, that it would enforce creator fees on all existing collections. UPDATE: We will continue to enforce creator fees on all existing collections.🧵⬇️ — OpenSea (@opensea) November 9, 2022   OpenSea reported that “in… Read More

July 18, 2022 @ 5:17 pm By Chris Sloan  |  

  Non-fungible tokens, commonly called NFTs for short, have become an increasingly popular digital asset, especially in light of some eye-popping sale transactions involving Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, Bored Ape NFTs, NBA Top Shots Moments, and a number of other digital works of art. However,… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

OpenSea has cut its employee headcount by 20%, according to a tweet by founder and CEO Devin Finzer. Approximately 50 employees are being let go. In the tweet, Finzer blamed the action on the ongoing “crypto-winter.” OpenSea is one of the largest NFT, or non-fungible token,… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the news that non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea had suffered a data breach, Kaleb Ells, Analyst on the Thematic Team at GlobalData, a data and analytics company, noted: “This mass data breach highlights that OpenSea is not yet providing the security fundamentals that are… Read More

June 30, 2022 @ 2:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

OpenSea, the most popular NFT marketplace in the world, has experienced a breach of user information. According to a blog post yesterday, an employee of Customer.io, a service provider for OpenSea, downloaded OpenSea’s email list, apparently to use or sell for illegal objectives. OpenSea stated:… Read More

June 4, 2022 @ 2:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week it was reported that the US Department of Justice had arrested and charged a former OpenSea employee with insider trading of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The individual in question, Nathanial Chastain,  has been charged with wire fraud, and money laundering as he… Read More

June 2, 2022 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

A former employee of OpenSea (Ozone Networks, Inc.) has been arrested and charged with the first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Nathanial Chastain a former Product Manager at OpenSea has been charged with wire fraud, and money… Read More

February 20, 2022 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

OpenSea is in the midst of figuring out an attack on its platform that appears to be a phishing scheme according to tweets by the company and its CEO. At some point yesterday, OpenSea stated that a phishing scam had caused 32 users to sign… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Salesforce told its workers at a sales kickoff this Wednesday that the firm intends to launch an NFT (non-fungible token) Cloud. This, according to sources familiar with the matter (and cited by CNBC). As covered, NFTs are provably unique digital assets (and collectibles) that are… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized applications store DappRadar recently shared its January 2022 Dapp Industry Report, noting relative stability for the blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) ecosystem even though we are currently in a bearish cryptocurrency market. NFTs emerged, once again, as a record-breaking segment, “marking $16 billion… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 6:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In order to help with protecting endangered animals, UK’s TV station, WildEarth, has introduced its own set of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Notably, 40% of the main sale proceeds will be directed towards various custodians of the land on which the animals are currently living. Graham… Read More

February 5, 2022 @ 12:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the US Department of Treasury issued a statement on illicit activity in the “high-value art market.” More specifically, activities that include money laundering and terrorist financing risks. The study found that while there is some evidence of money laundering risk in the high-value art… Read More

November 2, 2021 @ 11:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

NFT-focused investment firm Sfermion this week announced the close of Fund II, a $100 million venture fund with participation from Alan Howard, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Matthew Roszak, Digital Currency Group, CMT Digital, and Animoca Brands. Sfermion’s mission is to accelerate… Read More

October 26, 2021 @ 9:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Data presented by MejoresApuestas.com confirms OpenSea is the dominant NFT marketplace. That space is growing dramatically, as market volume topped $15 billion last week. Last week, all-time trading volume on OpenSea surpassed $9.4 billion, a figure representing 60 per cent of all marketplace trading volume…. Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 8:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Coin Metrics, including researchers Nate Maddrey and Kyle Waters have released their State of the Network Q3 2021 wrap-up report. In the latest edition of the State of the Network report, the Coin Metrics team has taken a data-driven look at what… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spencer Noon, an investor in Variant, a first-check cryptocurrency venture capital fund, has released their latest Network report, which covers OpenSea, Foundation, SuperRare, RMRK, and Fractional. Spencer Noon reports that analysts have covered the non-fungible tokens or NFTs space for: OpenSea, Foundation, SuperRare, RMRK, and… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 3:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency platform Okcoin and Polygon, an Ethereum scaling full-stack solution, this week announced the listing of Polygon’s native MATIC token on Okcoin as of Sept. 1. The listing is accompanied by an exclusive Polygon-minted NFT release from 10 members of The Most Famous Artist (TMFA)… Read More