In 17 days of trading, the marketplace of non-fungible tokens (NFT) OpenSea crossed the volume of $3.52 billion, according to Dune Analytics. The previous record was set in August 2021.
It was an amount of $3.42 billion. The December figure reached $3.24 billion.
Given the trend, we can safely assume that another record amount will be set in January, since there are still two weeks left until the end of the month.
Also service Dune Analytics records that OpenSea has reached a record number of active users. For this part of January, the figure exceeded 365 thousand, for December – 362 thousand.
Analysts reported on January 14 that the number of users who made at least one transaction on OpenSea is greater 1 million.
Also in January, OpenSea closed a $300 million Series C funding round. reached $13.3 billion.
Announcing Series C! We’re building the friendliest & most trusted NFT marketplace with the best selection across many chains. The funding helps us accelerate product development, improve trust & safety, and invest deeply in the web3 community & ecosystem. https://t.co/OmRPleMCOX
— OpenSea (@opensea) January 5, 2022
In January, we wrote that MoonPay bought NFT CryptoPunk for 900 ETH. At the moment, 16 NFTs are stored in the moonpay.eth account on the OpenSea marketplace