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Most Influential 2021: Devin Finzer

OpenSea was most recently valued at $10 billion.

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업데이트됨 2023년 5월 11일 p.m. 6:26 게시됨 2021년 12월 10일 p.m. 8:16 1 min readAI 번역
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Devin Finzer is the co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest non-fungible token (NFT) platform, OpenSea. Finzer says his interest was sparked by the feline-themed token project, CryptoKitties, in 2017, the same year he started developing OpenSea as part of startup incubator Y Combinator. Sometimes called the “eBay for NFTs,” Finzer’s decentralized marketplace, run by a team of 20 and backed by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), routinely sees daily volumes in excess of $100 million.

The firm was most recently valued at $10 billion, making it one of the largest crypto companies operating. There are questions of whether OpenSea will follow competitor platform, like Rarible, in issuing a governance token. The recently hired Chief Financial Officer Brian Roberts, who shepherded ride-hailing app Lyft through a public listing, has said “it would be foolish not to think about going public.”

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