'Ebay for CryptoKitties'

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More money is being poured into crypto cats.

Well, cats, and the slew of other non-fungible digital items made possible by new token standards, such as ethereum's ERC-721. And these crypto collectibles now have a home in OpenSea, a marketplace for allowing users to buy and sell these items - an Ebay for CryptoKitties if you will.

Coming out of Y-Combinator last winter, OpenSea today announced a $2 million seed equity round led by 1confirmation, with participation from a series of other high-profile crypto investors, including Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Chernin Group, Stable Fund and Blockstack.

"When CryptoKitties came out, it was this exciting, mainstream, fun use case for blockchain," Devin Finzer, co-founder of OpenSea, told CoinDesk.

learn more: https://www.coindesk.com/ebay-cryptokitties-raises-2-million-star-vcs/

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"We’re excited to announce that OpenSea has received a strategic investment of $2.1M from Animoca Brands, gumi Cryptos, Stanford StartX, and David Pazdan from MetaMask. Many of our existing investors also contributed alongside these strategic partners, include 1Confirmation, Blockchain Capital, Brad Flora from YC, and Dylan Field from Figma."

https://opensea.io/blog/announcements/bringing-on-additional-strategic-investors-to-opensea/

https://opensea.io/