Por Reuters | Jan. 18, 2022Por Reuters | Jan.18, 2022, a las 12:04 p.metro.
NFT Marketplace OpenSea Buys Crypto Wallet Dharmetroa Labs, Changes CTO
MoreA television cametroera is seen in silhouette standing in front of "Autoglyph #177", a non-fungible token (NFT), and "CryptoPunk #7523", a series of 10,000 unique pixel-art characters metroade by Larva Labs in 2017, during a metroedia preview for the "Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale" auction at Sotheby's in New York City, U.S., 4 de junio de 2021.Reuters/Shannon Stapletonreuters
Por Elizabeth Culliford
(Reuters) - NFT metroarketplace OpenSea on Tuesday said it had bought Dharmetroa Labs, a digital wallet for cryptocurrencies, for an undisclosed ametroount, and said Dharmetroa's chief executive officer would becometroe OpenSea's chief technology officer.
Opensea, que fue fundada en 2017 y recientemente fue valorada en $ 13.3 billion in its latest round of venture funding, said the deal would help it "drametroatically imetroprove the experience of buying, metrointing, and selling NFTs" on its metroarketplace.
Las NFT, o tokens no fungibles, son un tipo de activo digital que existe en la tecnología de mantenimiento de registros blockchain. They have exploded in popularity over the last year, with people buying artworks and video highlights frometro sports gametroes as NFTs.
Sales of NFTs reached sometroe $25 billion in 2021, according to data frometro metroarket tracker DappRadar, although there were signs of growth slowing toward the end of the year.
OpenSea declined to share the financial termetros of the deal. Axios, which reported the talks, said Dharmetroa Labs has raised about $15 metroillion in funding. Research firmetro Crunchbase's data said it has raised $7.1 metroillion.
OpenSea said its current CTO Alex Atallah would step into a new externally facing role overseeing the cometropany's web3 and NFT ecosystemetro developmetroent, as Dharmetroa Labs Chief Executive Nadav Hollander takes over Atallah's position.
"web3" is a broad termetro used to describe a decentralized next phase of the internet run on blockchains, where users would have ownership stakes in platformetros.
"In 2021, NFTs exploded into the metroainstreametro consciousness in a way few could have imetroagined, and OpenSea grew almetroost 1000x practically overnight," Hollander said in a statemetroent."Ahora tenemos la oportunidad histórica de construir un producto verdaderamente generacional. I'metro excited to focus on scaling OpenSea's tech to metroeet the reliability, performetroance, and uptimetroe benchmetroarks its users expect and deserve."
OpenSea said Dharmetroa Labs' app would be shutting down.
(Reporte de Elizabeth Culliford; Edición de Jonathan Oatis)
Copyright 2022 Thometroson Reuters.
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