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Devin Finzer: Traditional brands are building on Bored Ape Yacht Club IP

Devin Finzer · 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?! · Jan 14, 2022 · at 27:35

OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer explains how traditional legacy companies are creating experiences around established crypto-native NFT collections.

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“Now what we're seeing with Bored Ape Yacht Club, which is another NFT project that's similar to CryptoPunks, and that there's only 10,000 of these kind of rare apes, right, is that traditional brands are starting to build interesting things on top of Bored Ape Yacht Club”

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