{"id":48519,"date":"2021-08-30T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T09:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48519"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:36:39","slug":"opensea-reports-staffing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/opensea-reports-staffing-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSea Reports Staffing Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenSea product manager for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Nate Chastain, asked on Twitter for help in hiring staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We need to ramp up hiring at OpenSea. We are 37 people handling 98% of all NFT volume. <\/p>\n<p>Referral bonus: Will pay 1 ETH to anyone who connects us to engineers or designers that we hire. Resumes to opensearoles@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p>Candidates: Use <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/adazqldv91\">https:\/\/t.co\/adazqldv91<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nate Chastain (natec.eth) (@natechastain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natechastain\/status\/1431993791494467584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Chastain, 37 employees at OpenSea handle 98% of NFT trading volume.<\/p>\n<p>He also promised to send 1 ETH (about $3,190 at the time of writing) to anyone who refers an engineer or designer whom the company hires.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.lever.co\/OpenSea\">jobs page<\/a>, OpenSea is hiring for more than 20 roles. Among them are developers, finance professionals, marketers, recruiters, community managers, executives and others.<\/p>\n<p>In July OpenSea <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplace-opensea-raises-100-million-at-a-1-5-billion-valuation\">raised $100 million<\/a> in a Series B round led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. The deal valued the company at $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In August trading volume on OpenSea exceeded $2.23 billion. Analyses by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/linked\/114622\/nft-market-opensea-volume-august?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social\">The Block<\/a> show that in June the figure was $125.2 million, and in July it rose to $284.2 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-08-30-v-12.22.09-1024x586.png\" alt=\"OpenSea staffing shortage\" class=\"wp-image-147359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-08-30-v-12.22.09-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-08-30-v-12.22.09-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-08-30-v-12.22.09-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-08-30-v-12.22.09.png 1492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/post\/115936\/nft-wrap-the-2-billion-month\">The Block<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the first half of 2021 NFT trading volume <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-sales-hit-2-5-billion-in-first-half-of-2021\">reached $2.5 billion<\/a>. In August the figure was $2.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSea NFT product manager Nate Chastain asked for help on Twitter to hire staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,1265],"class_list":["post-48519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-opensea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48521,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519\/revisions\/48521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}