Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea collects $ 300 million, the company's postal money assessment opens up $ 13.3 billion-finance

the leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea announced that the company applied $ 300 million in a series C-financing round led by Paradigm and Coatue. The company has driven the recent capital increase of OpenSea to an evaluation of $ 13.3 billion.

OpenSea procures $ 300 million and has a post-money rating of $ 13.3 billion $

mid-November, A Kate Clark and Berber Jin von Theinformation.com said that OpenSea made new investments after investors allegedly bitten the financing of the project. At that time, the estimated value of OpenSea was $ 10 billion and two sources said: "Investors require part of the startup."

48 days later, OpenSea Created 300 million US dollar in a financing round of the series C. The "acceleration of product development", "the significant improvement of the customer support", "investments in the wider NFT and web3 community" and the expansion of the OpenSA team will flow. The financing round was directed by paradigma and mantel Further strategic investors joined.

OpenSea All-Time-NFT sales of almost $ 15 billion, competitor in the shade, fixed plans for the introduction of the subsidy program

According to the OpenSea, the new financing gives the company a post-money rating of $ 13.3 billion. OpenSA is also the largest NFT marketplace in terms of sales of all time, since the company has a turnover of $ 14.68 billion at $ 1,387,357 worldwide. The turnover has increased by more than 25 % in the last 30 days, with a recorded volume of $ 2.91 billion. The sales of $ 14.68 billion is much larger than with any other NFT project or market.

The second largest market, Axie Infinity, has, for example, a total turnover of $ 3.94 billion, which is 73.16 % less than the sales of OpenSea. Devin Finzer, co-founder and CEO of OpenSea, explained in the financing announcement that the team will have a funding program to expand the "entire NFT ecosystem". At the editorial deadline, the OpenSea platform NFTS supports the Ethereum ( ETH ) and polygon (MATIC) Netzwerke.

"In this quarter we start a subsidy program that gives us the opportunity to support the developers, builders and creators directly in the design of the future of the NFT space," said Finzer in a statement. "Our goal is to promote the size and growth of the wider NFT ecosystem, including the increase in the profile of emerging developers and the investment in the people who today for better design."

What do you think that OpenSea will accept $ 300 million and that the $ 13.3 billion is after the company's money valuation? Let us know your opinion on this topic in the comments below.

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