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Finzer: OpenSea trades new NFT projects without custom integrations
“Oftentimes projects will kind of come out of thin air and start trading on OpenSea without us ever having to go and do special integrations with them because it's all kind of built into the blockchain.”
Finzer: NFTs give creators an open, free market from day one
“That's sort of one of the magical things about it is you get an open free market from day one the moment you launch your NFT.”
Finzer: Digital art was not a real market three years ago
“Digital art just really wasn't a market three years ago.”
Finzer: Tokenization gives assets instant liquidity and DeFi compatibility
“With an NFT, the exciting thing about it is the moment you turn something in an NFT, it sort of plugs into all of the existing like crypto infrastructure. So when you make an NFT, what do you kind of get out of the box? One is you get a marketplace, right? You…”
Finzer: Vaulted physical items can trade as NFTs before physical redemption
“One of the interesting things is, and we're starting to see experiments with this is people are holding in, in their own custody physical items, but issuing NFTs for them so that they can be traded around many times before they're actually redeemed for the phy…”
Finzer: CryptoPunks is the first candidate for a true digital antique
“CryptoPunks, for those of you who aren't familiar, is kind of one of those most famous early NFT projects. I like to call it kind of the first candidate for a true digital antique.”
Devin Finzer: Virtual land will face physical-world zoning and regulatory issues
“But I think to answer your question, a lot of the same problems that we have in the physical world will start to emerge as well.”
Finzer: Instagram and ad platforms capture most value from creators
“So if you think about Instagram today, you're creating all of this interesting content, but much, most of the value is being captured by the platform itself, kind of due to how the business models work, right? Advertising based business models don't typically …”
Finzer: High transaction costs make trading NFTs on Ethereum tricky
“Tricky it is at the moment to buy and sell NFTs on something like Ethereum due to the high transaction costs.”
Finzer: OpenSea consulted a virtual real estate agent for a metaverse headquarters
“OpenSea as a company, we were looking to set up a headquarters in one of these virtual worlds. And I actually went to sort of the equivalent of a virtual real estate agent to figure out how, you know, how do I get a good deal?”
Finzer: FIT student paid off loans selling crypto art
“And I had, I heard from the instructor that one of the, Students who had gone to the talk last year before everything was so crazy had basically, you know, started becoming a crypto artist and publishing her work and had paid off, you know, had made enough mon…”