Yesterday, it was reported that one of the employees at OpenSea, NFT’s largest trading center, was charged with insider trading in non-fungible tokens.
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According to Crypto Briefing, Nate Chastain, the head of OpenSea, used the confidential information for his profit. He is accused of having bought NFTs before the official auction, and selling them at a high price.
When the site promotes NFT art, its price increases dramatically. The same thing happens for tokens listed in Coinbase. OpenSea believes that Chestain knew in advance which tokens would be on the homepage and made purchases quickly before other users.
The first charge was brought by a Twitter user named Zuwu. After analyzing the network data, he was able to uncover the multiple wallet fraud scheme used by Nate Chestain. He shared this information with the crypto community.
Hey @opensea why does it appear @natechastain has a few secret wallets that appears to buy your front page drops before they are listed, then sells them shortly after the front-page-hype spike for profits, and then tumbles them back to his main wallet with his punk on it?
— Zuwu🟩 👻🎃🦇 (@ZuwuTV) September 14, 2021
After studying the transaction history of September 14 of this year, users managed to find out that Chesten got 7.1 ETH in just 4 minutes. Then the data collected by BlockBeats emerged which proved that such operations had been performed repeatedly.
How much #opensea product lead earned through insider trading. Data collected by our friend @BlockBeatsChina https://t.co/lJYOdQ8t0I pic.twitter.com/UQpRfj1LjR
— 8BTCnews (@btcinchina) September 15, 2021
The message stream shows some members of the crypto community writing that Chesten had no opportunity to say anything in his defense. Following the accusations, a message appeared on the OpenSea site confirming that the platform employee had used confidential information for his benefit. Company representatives add that they are extremely disappointed with this event. The OpenSea team reports that a full investigation of the incident is underway. Company employees are strictly prohibited from using inside information, as well as trading NFT from the collections presented on the crypto platform.
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Trouble pursues OpenSea
Recently, the platform has been criticized by collectors. Some have taken screenshots that show the commission is 2.5% high. Last week a token worth $ 100,000 was deleted due to an error. Despite this, OpenSea remains the largest NFT trading platform. Its turnover last month was $ 3 billion.
It remains to be seen how the platform will approach these incidents in the future and whether changes in the internal control department will be planned.
