OpenSea lays off 50% of staff with severance in preparation for version 2.0 launch

Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea announced on Nov. 3 that it was laying off employees. Co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer broke the news on X (formerly Twitter), saying the company was launching OpenSea 2.0 with a smaller team.OpenSea launched in 2017, when NFTs were an innovation. ...