Devin Finzer, co-founder and CEO of NFT marketplace OpenSea, talks all things non-fungible. Check out the whole show to hear Devin answer the following questions:
First Half: Breaking Down NFTs
- Why did he become so interested in NFTs ?
- What is an NFT? Why have NFTs become so popular recently?
- Who is creating NFTs? Who is purchasing NFTs?
- Are we in an NFT bubble?
- How is the NFT ecosystem going to evolve over the next few years?
- What are people purchasing when they buy an NFT?
Second Half: OpenSea Q+A
- What is OpenSea?
- How will OpenSea maintain its competitive advantage in the open-source blockchain ecosystem?
- How does OpenSea make money?
- Are artists making money on OpenSea?
- How is OpenSea planning on integrating with layer 2 solutions on Ethereum and other blockchains?
- How do royalties work on OpenSea? Why are they hard to enforce?
- What can be done about content being minted on OpenSea without an artist’s permission?
- What issues in the NFT world still need to be resolved?
- How is OpenSea handling the environmental concerns surrounding NFTs?
- What’s next for OpenSea?
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Episode Links
Basic Links
https://twitter.com/dfinzer?lang=en
OpenSea https://www.owltail.com/people/YzIoa-devin-finzer/appearances
The NFT Bible - https://opensea.io/blog/guides/non-fungible-tokens/
https://www.coindesk.com/the-emerging-trends-in-the-blockchain-gaming-world
OpenSea
- Profiles
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- Fortune
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- https://fortune.com/2021/03/18/nft-art-crypto-marketplace-opensea-amazon/
- CoinDesk 50 for 2020 (#47)
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https://www.coindesk.com/the-coindesk-50
Recent announcements - scaling solution w/ Immutable X (Mar 31)
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https://decrypt.co/65828/immutable-x-ethereum-nft-gods-unchained
A16z investment (Mar 18th) https://a16z.com/2021/03/18/investing-in-opensea/
updating terms of service (Mar 13) https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1370895902068637697
taking down the hacker NFT (Mar 9) - https://www.coindesk.com/hacker-selling-cybersecurity-exploit-nft
unlockable content (early March) https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1366780226416631817
Tezos collab (Feb 10) https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1359519631275352064
creating NFTs for free (Dec 29) https://twitter.com/xanderatallah/status/1358848443356221445
recent usage: - https://duneanalytics.com/rchen8/opensea
2018 investing round https://opensea.io/blog/announcements/opensea-raises-2-million/
Other
- Terms of service talk
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- https://www.reddit.com/r/opensea/comments/m12uh4/do_i_keep_the_rights_to_any_nft_i_sell_on_opensea/
- Stats
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/youngjoseph/2021/03/29/nft-market-rages-on-nfts-market-cap-grow-1785-in-2021-as-demand-explodes/?sh=2974862a7fdc
https://duneanalytics.com/rchen8/opensea
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