OpenSea

OpenSea

OpenSea

OpenSea

OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for user-owned digital goods, which include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and other assets backed by a blockchain. Buy, sell, and discover rare digital items.

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OpenSea Review

Bid on a Bored Ape, drop 10 ETH on a Doodle—and yes, make money on these fictional characters.

Overview

OpenSea is a marketplace for digital goods or NFTs, including collectibles, gaming items, digital art, and other digital assets that are backed by a blockchain like Ethereum. On OpenSea, you can buy, sell, and trade any of these items with anyone in the world. OpenSea is currently the largest general marketplace for user-owned digital goods, with the broadest set of categories (200 and growing), the most items (over 4 million), and the best prices for new categories of items. OpenSea is also a decentralized marketplace. Trading on OpenSea happens through a smart contract, meaning that no central authority ever holds custody of your items.

Things to Know

  • You make money on

    Value

  • Fees

    0%

  • Min Investment

    $1

  • Payout frequency

    Asset sold

  • Term of investment

    Zero

  • Target Return

    Varied

  • Liquidity

    Moderate

  • Open to

    All Investors

  • Mobile Application

    No

Top Perks

  • Blockchain-supported collectibles, virtual items

  • Effortless search & sort to locate desired items

  • NFTs: Unique, liquid, art investing frontier

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How you make money

There are multiple ways to earn returns on OpenSea. The website is an open marketplace, so like the stock market, you can buy digital assets in hopes of appreciation. Another way to earn money is by creating digital assets yourself and being the original seller of the item. You can also help broker deals by finding a buyer for a seller. If you match a buyer and seller, you will receive a small percentage in royalties for your help.

How OpenSea makes money

The platform charges a 2.5% fee on all transactions. OpenSea's most commonly used currency is Ethereum so it's likely they have Ethereum holdings that have increased greatly in value over the past few years. Also note that due to Ethereum's popularity, gas fees are high so transactions are expensive to execute.

Is it safe?

OpenSea has a strong track record as a safe marketplace for unique blockchain-based assets. They have had over 40,000 ETH of volume pass through their smart contract and many thousands of successful sales. They have acted as the primary marketplace for several large games, including Etheremon Adventure, My Crypto Heroes, CryptoVoxels, ChainBreakers, Ether Kingdoms, and CryptoBeasties -- as well as a secondary market for CryptoKitties, MLB Crypto, Axie, and a host of others. For the more technically savvy: They leverage the Wyvern Protocol, an audited, battle-tested set of smart contracts. Wyvern is a decentralized exchange system that creates a personal proxy for each user. They don't control the proxies that get created, and you have to approve access to each ERC721 contract individually. Once the contract is approved, the logic of the exchange contract only allows it to transfer an asset from your proxy if both apply:

  1. You have signed an order indicating you wish to sell that item.
  2. It is properly matched by a buyer paying the appropriate funds. So not only does your asset not leave your wallet until it is sold, it is only allowed to be swapped if an order you create is properly matched.
  • Established

    2017

  • Country Available

    Worldwide

  • Assets Managed

    $320.1B

How you’re taxed

Capital Gains

Capital Gains

Income Tax

Income Tax

There are two tax considerations to be had when purchasing NFTs:

Buying an NFT using Crypto
When The IRS states that “if you exchange virtual currency held as a capital asset for other property, including for goods or for another virtual currency, you will recognize a capital gain or loss.”

For example - if you purchased a unit of ether for $100 in 2018, it would now be worth around $1,700. If you used that ether unit to buy a $1,700 NFT, you would have to pay tax on the gain of $1,600 as part of the NFT purchase. You would owe the IRS — assuming a top capital gains rate of 20% — a tax of $320. You’re not spending currency, you’re spending an appreciated asset.

Selling an NFT for profit.  
Profits earned from the sale of NFTs, the same as crypto, are taxed like stocks (short and long term capital gains). Whenever you sell an NFT, you incur a capital gain or loss. For example, if you bought an NFT for $10,000 of ETH (this is your cost-basis) and then sold it for $15,000 of ETH, you would incur a taxable capital gain of $5,000.

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