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OpenSea is extremely dominant. The exchange boasts a market share of 97%. That’s thanks, in part, to OpenSea’s superior asset breadth, easy listing process, and robust filtering system.

If we want to get a sense for where else the company might go, revisiting Coinbase’s roadmap might be a good call. In many respects, that seems to be OpenSea’s closest analogue — a centralized crypto exchange that serves as the natural on-ramp to the ecosystem, and is keen to play by the rules.

Zora wants to serve every NFT vertical—art, music, gaming. Rather than being the marketplace that sells all of these NFTs across categories, Zora wants to enable other people to build experiences, platforms, and marketplaces in these categories.

Mason Nystrom: OpenSea aggregated and offered a breadth of different assets. So while Rarible gained early volume when it launched because of its liquidity mining, Rarible didn’t aggregate other non-Rarible assets (i.e. Punks, Axies, art). So OpenSea became the go-to market/liquidity for many of these early assets. OpenSea also passed through royal... See more

Developers and technologists can use the latest release of ZoraOS to create their own unique and independent auction houses, platforms and experiences that are open in nature.