Opensea announced a reduction in gas price for sellers of some NFT – Bits Media

The largest trading OpensEa NFT platform to increase its competitive advantages reported the transition to the protocol, allowing users to pay one commission for NFT package.

Opensea announced the transition to Seaport Protocol. The new smart contract is designed to allow Save the site users 35% on the payment for gas in the Ethereum blockchain. The platform team told Twitter about the advantage of using the new protocol:

“According to our estimates, The new contract will allow more to save more $460 Milln at common training ".

In addition to the migration of Opensea on Seaport, the team took up the creation of the tool, allowing holders of non -replaceable tokens to put several NFT for sale at once, Paying only one gas commission. The team claims, what users, which are recorded on the platform, They will not make a one -time "account for creating an account", existing on Opensea.

The developers reported, that for the migration of Opensea on Seaport they used the Wyvern protocol.

Seaport is a decentralized open source protocol, which was checked by web3 security companies Openzeppelin and Trail of Bits. The protocol has been developed, To allow users to include several elements in the transaction in the blockchain and is not exclusive for Opensea. Two months ago, a competing NFT Platform Lookrare used it used it, To launch the function of mass leaflets of tokens.

Recall, what exactly with Opensea gas commissions in January had problems. Members, Wanting to save on gas payment, carried their NFT between wallets, Without removing old leaflet from Opensea. As soon as the user moved NFT to another wallet, The platform showed, that the offer of sale is no longer available. But in fact, the element could not be displayed in the list and still be active in the API platform. As a result, the Opensea trading platform has compensated to losses to users, affected by error when canceling NFT listing and localized exploit.