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Infrastructure · December 20, 2017

OpenSea founded, becoming the dominant NFT marketplace

Price at event
$16,462
Today
$73,594
Since then
×4.5

Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah founded OpenSea in December 2017, shortly after CryptoKitties demonstrated that people would, in fact, pay real money for pictures of cartoon cats. It went on to become the central trading venue for the 2021 NFT boom, processing billions in volume before the mania cooled.

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