When OpenSea was founded in 2017 by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah, NFTs were far from the global phenomenon they are today. Their inspiration came from a blockchain game called CryptoKitties, which sparked a frenzy by allowing users to buy and sell digital cats as NFTs. Seeing the success of this game, the founders decided to create a marketplace that could support all kinds of NFTs.

But here’s the interesting part: in the early days, OpenSea had only 4,000 active users and a monthly trading volume of just $1.1 million (as of March 2020). In other words, the giant platform we know today actually started from very humble beginnings!

When OpenSea was founded in 2017 by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah, NFTs were far from the global phenomenon they are today. Their inspiration came from a blockchain game called CryptoKitties, which sparked a frenzy by allowing users to buy and sell digital cats as NFTs. Seeing the success of this game, the founders decided to create a marketplace that could support all kinds of NFTs.

But here’s the interesting part: in the early days, OpenSea had only 4,000 active users and a monthly trading volume of just $1.1 million (as of March 2020). In other words, the giant platform we know today actually started from very humble beginnings!