Trump’s second NFT series sells out on day one

Trump NFTs OpenSea

Another non-fungible token (NFT) collection licensing the name and likeness of former US President Donald Trump has sold out, one day after launching on 18 April.

The second of its kind, the ‘Trump Digital Trading Cards Series 2’ collection features 47.000 NFTs that were originally priced at $99 each, netting the former President a cool $4.65 million.

On the secondary reseller market, the collection has reached 890 Ether in trading volume since...

19 April 2023 | Digital Assets

OpenSea will not support forked NFTs after ETH Merge

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With the Ethereum Merge scheduled for 15 September, NFT marketplace OpenSea has said it plans to focus its support on NFTs that are on the upgraded proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain.

The company took to Twitter to confirm that whilst the OpenSea team is not speculating on potential forks, they will not be reflected on the OpenSea marketplace as the platform will only be supporting the upgraded Ethereum chain.

The NFT marketplace also highlighted that its team is preparing...

2 September 2022 | Digital Assets

Massive data breach leaves OpenSea users’ email addresses vulnerable

OpenSea, the leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, has warned its users after discovering an employee of email management platform Customer.io has leaked OpenSea customer’s emails to a third party.

Any user who has their email address registered with OpenSea, whether it’s for the platform or its newsletter, has been affected by the breach.

OpenSea has since warned all of its users to watch out for potential phishing attempts and has reported the incident to...

30 June 2022 | Cyber Security

OpenSea adds new security features amidst NFT market downturn

OpenSea, the most popular NFT marketplace, has announced a new security feature to protect its users from the growing number of scams in the NFT space.

It comes at a time when the company is under increasing fire for the proliferation of stolen and plagiarised NFTs passing through its site.

The feature will automatically hide suspicious NFT transfers from being viewed on the OpenSea marketplace. The company hopes this will help to protect users from falling for scam...

14 June 2022 | Cyber Security

Solana NFTs launch in beta on leading marketplace OpenSea

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Solana NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have finally gone live on Opensea, the leading NFT marketplace.

Despite being the home ground of Ethereum-based NFTs, OpenSea’s users have long requested integration of the Solana network.

Launching in beta with 165 NFT collections and partners, OpenSea plans to “improve the Solana experience” over time and add more collections every day.

OpenSea said: “Solana has emerged as one of the fastest growing NFT ecosystems in...

12 April 2022 | Altcoins

NFT sales at nearly £8bn in Q3 2021, up eightfold from Q2

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Global NFT sales reached £7.9 billion in the third quarter of 2021, an eightfold increase over the previous quarter.

This is according to data in the latest report from market tracker DappRadar, which highlights the accelerating frenzy for crypto-based assets.

In comparison, DappRadar recorded £885 million in NFT sales in Q1 and £958 million in Q2.

On OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace to date, £2.5 billion in sales were recorded in August alone –...

6 October 2021 | NFT

OpenSea overtakes Uniswap in Ethereum usage

NFT marketplace OpenSea is currently outshining Ethereum’s largest decentralised exchange, Uniswap, in terms of transaction fees.

Since 2020, Uniswap has typically commanded the most in daily transaction fees, a key barometer for actual usage of the world’s second-largest blockchain.

However, the emergence of NFTs earlier in 2021 began to threaten Uniswap’s top spot, with the marketplace platform now firmly ahead in Ethereum usage.

As of August 10,...

10 August 2021 | Decentralised Finance (DeFi)