[OpenSea CEO: OpenSea is developing an upgraded version called OpenSea 2.0] Golden Finance reported that according to CryptoSlam data, global sales of NFTs, which are based on blockchain and represent unique ownership of assets such as images and even physical objects, plummeted 63% to $8.7 billion last year. Even though trading volume more than tripled to $918 million between October and November. Meanwhile, Bitcoin soared nearly 160% in 2023. OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer said in an interview that it makes sense for the industry to no longer view NFTs as just collectible images. When defining the success of the NFT industry and your own company, it is not just about sales figures. One of the things we are most excited about is not necessarily how to drive the biggest sales, but how to build the most compelling use cases for NFTs. It is reported that OpenSea is developing an upgraded version of the platform called OpenSea 2.0. Finzer said that as more token use cases are developed, the platform will provide users with a better user experience and improve differentiation between NFT categories. Currently, NFTs are displayed the same on OpenSea and other platforms, whether they are game tokens or event tickets. We really want to have a marketplace interface that can be better customized to suit each type of use case, and OpenSea is working on displaying ticket NFTs on a calendar and sorting them by date.
