It was recently announced that at least 15 Bored Ape non-fungible tokens (NFT) stolen from the largest NFT marketplace in the world, OpenSea. The marketplace has since frozen its $2.2 million NFT collection. The NFTs in question can therefore no longer be traded.
Tood Kramer
That theft was spotted and reported by the original owner of the NFTs, Todd Kramer. According to Kramer, the moment he realized his NFTs were gone was one of the “worst nights of his life.” The collection includes the now famous monkeys and mutants.
@NFTX_ these apes and mutants have been stolen and flagged on @opensea please remove from your liquidiry pool
Ape 2771
Ape 6416
Ape 1623
Ape 1708
Ape 8214
Ape 7528
Ape 9988
Ape 9410Mutants 25057
Mutant 11177
Mutant 28752
Mutant 24718
Mutant 2436
Mutant 9278
Mutant 2434– toddkramer.eth (@ toddkramer1) December 30, 2021
It is the first time that a large NFT collection has been stolen. Of course, it also raises questions about the security of NFTs on platforms such as OpenSea. The freezing of the stolen NFTs is also a problem for many members of the crypto community.
OpenSea
It shows that the NFT sector may not be as decentralized as many think. There is therefore a lot of criticism of OpenSea for the way in which they have handled the incident.
In addition, OpenSea has not announced anything yet. There has been no official update and information about how the theft could have happened is still unknown. OpenSea is by far the largest NFT platform in the world with thousands of users and a skyrocketing daily trading volume. Many of these users will crave clarity about the incident.
In any case, the owner of the stolen NFT collection remains hopeful that the incident will fizzle out. Whether or not this will actually happen is dependent on a lot of things, many of these things fall under OpenSea’s remit and so far they don’t seem to be taking too much action. Of course, there is also a chance that Kramer simply has not been careful enough with his NFTs.
For NFT owners and OpenSea users, it is in any case waiting for more clarity about the million-dollar theft.
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