OpenSea NFT Marketplace announced to go IPO instead of an ICO

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Recently, former CFO of Lyft Inc, Brian Roberts joined the world's largest decentralized marketplace OpenSea.

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OpenSea's trading volume has already exceeded $10 billion and people are interested in NFTs for sure. With that alone, an OpenSea IPO would be significant

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However, some members of the crypto community took issue with the fact that OpenSea had planned an IPO instead of issuing its own crypto token.

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