Magic Eden Cuts 15% of Staff, Takes ‘Hard Look’ at Restructuring

NFT marketplace Magic Eden said Monday it would axe roughly 15% of its staff as part of its company-wide restructuring efforts this year. Out of 144 employees, 22 will be let go, CEO and co-founder Ja...

New SEC filing amends Magic Eden’s $27 million raise to $16.9 million

A new Securities and Exchange Commission filing said that Euclid Labs, the parent firm of the Solana-based NFT marketplace Magic Eden, may have raised a lower amount than previously known.  The ...

Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden offers refunds following fake y00ts fix

Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden offered refunds to users affected by the posting of unverified NFT collections on its marketplace.  A new feature deployment had caused a user interface issue t...

Magic Eden updates verification system after fake y00ts and ABC NFTs

Solana’s top NFT marketplace Magic Eden updated its verification layers for NFT collections following a series of fake duped projects.  Magic Eden thanked the community for alerting it of ...

Magic Eden blames third-party cacher for ‘unsavory’ NFT images

Solana’s largest NFT marketplace, Magic Eden, displayed incorrect images for some non-fungible tokens yesterday. Some of the misplaced stills included “unsavory” adult content — the ...

The year in NFT charts

From the dizzying highs of the bull run, when NFT Google searches were up what felt like thousands of percentage points, to the dark corners of the bear market, it’s been a tumultuous year for N...

NFT Creators Looking for Royalties Face an Uphill Battle: Galaxy

Thanks to widespread, emerging marketplace policies, NFT creators looking to cash in on royalties have been having a difficult go of it.  Until yet another set of standards for corresponding smar...

Magic Eden bolsters gaming support via Polygon NFT minting and trading

Magic Eden, Solana’s biggest NFT platform, now supports Polygon NFT minting and trading.  Magic Eden extended support for the Polygon network on Nov. 22 in an effort to add multi-chain fun...

Magic Eden introduces discount and rewards system for marketplace users

Magic Eden announced a rewards system that allows users to receive rewards, discounts and other perks based on their activity on the platform. Magic Eden Rewards, as it’s called, will officially...

Magic Eden hires its first Chief Gaming Officer

The Solana-based NFT platform Magic Eden has hired its first Chief Gaming Officer.  Chris Akhavan joins Magic Eden from Forte, a blockchain-based gaming firm that raised $725 million in Series B...

NFT Sales Volume Drops 20% in November

November’s combined NFT sales volume across the five top marketplaces clocked roughly $394 million, the lowest recorded this year.  Data provided by DappRadar and compiled by NFT gaming platform ...

Magic Eden to debut code enforcing NFT royalties, allowing ‘gamification’ of collections

Solana’s biggest NFT marketplace, Magic Eden, has followed in the footsteps of OpenSea in releasing code that allows creators to enforce royalties on new NFT collections. The move appears ...

Has removing royalties paid off for Magic Eden?

While November has been a rough month for a lot of people with the fall of FTX reverberating around the crypto space, most NFT and gaming firms have so far been spared the brunt of the fallout. ...

NFT royalties: The story so far

NFT royalties, once the reigning recurring fee to benefit creators, have been sent to the gallows.  This year marked a race to the bottom among marketplaces to remove royalties and cut NFT trading cos...

A Comprehensive Overview of NFT Marketplace Fees

November 7, 2022, 10:13AM EST • 7 min read Quick Take NFT marketplaces have been one of the main beneficiaries of the NFT gold rush. The golden age of effortless revenue generation has come to an end,...

With Twitter and OpenSea deal adrift, Magic Eden emerges as key NFT partner

When Twitter debuted its Tweet Tiles NFT pilot program last week, the roster of partners included a who’s who of NFT marketplaces: Magic Eden, Rarible, Dapper Labs and Jump.trade. OpenSea, considered ...

The State of Solana NFTs

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Magic Eden Company Intelligence

August 22, 2022, 10:08AM EDT • 30 min read Quick Take Founded in September 2021, Magic Eden runs the largest Solana NFT marketplace with +90% market share – Magic Eden verticals include its secondary ...

Magic Eden submits proposal to build ApeCoinDAO an NFT marketplace

Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden has submitted a proposal to the ApeCoin DAO to build a marketplace where $APE holders can buy and sell NFTs for a 0.75% transaction fee. Magic Eden clai...

Magic Eden to launch support for Ethereum NFTs in coming weeks

Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden will launch support for Ethereum-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the coming weeks, the company announced on Tuesday. The move has been expected since the company’...

Monthly NFT trading volumes fell 74% from May to June

The NFT market is cooling down, according to the data. Monthly trading volumes for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) fell 74% between the months of May and June, according to data compiled by The Block Resea...