{"id":56958,"date":"2022-02-01T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56958"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:08:17","slug":"opensea-more-than-80-of-free-mint-nfts-were-plagiarised-or-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/opensea-more-than-80-of-free-mint-nfts-were-plagiarised-or-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSea: More than 80% of free-mint NFTs were plagiarised or spam."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFT marketplace OpenSea said that more than 80% of non-fungible tokens created with the free-mint option were plagiarised, counterfeit or spam.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">However, we&#8217;ve recently seen misuse of this feature increase exponentially. <br \/>Over 80% of the items created with this tool were plagiarised works, fake collections, and spam.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OpenSea (@opensea) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opensea\/status\/1486843204062236676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">January 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The platform added a free NFT minting feature called lazy minting in December 2020. It allowed creators to issue tokens without paying gas upfront.<\/p>\n<p>On January 27, 2022, OpenSea limited issuance to five collections (no more than 50 tokens each) to curb improper use of the feature.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Users began complaining that they could not finish their NFT sets. The restriction lasted a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>In addition to reversing the decision, we are working on a number of other measures to ensure support for our creators while continuing to curb unscrupulous participants,<\/p>\n<p> wrote OpenSea representatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They noted that any rule changes would be discussed with the community before implementation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In January, users of the marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opensea-vulnerability-nets-user-347-eth\">were warned<\/a> about vulnerabilities in the listing function, which allowed purchasing expensive items at discounted prices. In total, OpenSea <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opensea-reimbursed-users-affected-by-a-vulnerability-to-more-than-1-9-million\">paid out 750 ETH<\/a> to the victims as compensation for losses.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Facebook<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFT marketplace OpenSea said that more than 80% of non-fungible tokens created with the free-mint option were plagiarised, counterfeit or spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56959,"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-56958","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":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56958","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=56958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56960,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56958\/revisions\/56960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}