{"id":79364,"date":"2021-09-16T02:17:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=79364"},"modified":"2021-09-16T02:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:21:43","slug":"there-was-insider-trading-on-nft-platform-opensea-the-1-5-billion-start-up-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2021\/there-was-insider-trading-on-nft-platform-opensea-the-1-5-billion-start-up-admits.html","title":{"rendered":"There was insider trading on NFT platform OpenSea, the $1.5 billion start-up admits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Rumors of insider trading at NFT marketplace OpenSea are true, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/blog\/announcements\/employee-information-use-at-opensea\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to a statement<\/a> from the start-up, which was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/opensea-raises-100m-series-b-from-a16z-to-scale-industrys-first-and-largest-nft-marketplace-301337952.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently valued at $1.5 billion<\/a>. \u201cYesterday we learned that one of our employees purchased items that they knew were set to display on our front page before they appeared there publicly,\u201d&nbsp;the company wrote in a blog post Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/15\/opensea-insider-trading-rumors-are-true.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Rumors of insider trading at NFT marketplace OpenSea are true, according to a statement from the start-up, which was recently valued at $1.5 billion. \u201cYesterday we learned that one of our employees purchased items that they knew were set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79368,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79364\/revisions\/79368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}