EBay and Known Origin publication In today’s joint statement, an e-commerce giant has acquired the NFT Marketplace for a private amount.
CEO Jamie Iannone Said Last year, his company investigated cryptocurrency payments and was considering NFTs that became available on eBay in May 2021.
This move happens in many NFT marketplace acquisitions. Just yesterday, Uniswap Lab, the company behind the decentralized exchange Uniswap, Said We had acquired the NFT aggregation platform Genie. And in April, OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, acquired the NFT aggregator Gem.
Ann NFT (Non-Fungible Token) Is a unique token linked to digital or physical content that provides proof of ownership. They exploded in the world of art and music.
KnowOrigin is a UK-based platform that allows you to buy and sell NFT artwork. It runs on the Ethereum blockchain and allows artists to create NFTs as well.
“Known Origin has created an impressive, passionate and loyal group of artists and collectors that has perfectly added to the community of sellers and buyers,” Iannone said in a statement.
KnowOrigin co-founder David Moore added that the eBay partnership will help “attract a new wave of NFT creators and collectors.”
Founded in 2018, Known Origin is one of the first NFT marketplaces and has sold $ 7.8 million since its launch. according to For DappRadar data. NFT sales were hit in 2022 due to worsening market conditions, but trading in the first quarter Still over $ 12 billion..
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