NFT marketplace 'OpenSea' goes down and affects Twitter and MetaMask, criticism that 'Web3 is not decentralized'



On January 20, 2022, the

non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace 'OpenSea' failed and the website and APIs provided by OpenSea became unavailable. As a result, it is reported that Twitter, which is deepening its relationship with NFT, and MetaMask, a software wallet that manages virtual currency and NFT, have been affected.

OpenSea was down for some users earlier
https://knowtechie.com/opensea-down-due-to-api-issue/

People Can't See Some NFTs on Twitter, Crypto Wallets After OpenSea Goes Down
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qjej/people-cant-see-some-nfts-in-crypto-wallets-after-opensea-goes-down

OpenSea is a marketplace where NFTs can be generated, managed, purchased, and auctioned, and has grown rapidly with the recent expansion of the NFT market. In January 2022, it was reported that it was raising funds for 13 billion dollars (about 1.5 trillion yen), which is the largest private company ever.

It is reported that the NFT marketplace 'OpenSea' is raising funds for 1.5 trillion yen, which is the largest ever, and the rumor of the acquisition of the digital wallet 'Dharma Labs' is also --GIGAZINE



However, at 14:21 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) January 20, 2022, OpenSea reported that 'there is a technical problem leading to the suspension of the website.' Not only did this issue prevent users from accessing the OpenSea website, but it also disrupted the API access provided by OpenSea.

If you look at the logs on the OpenSea status page , you'll see that program access to the API was fully restored at 23:37 after the failure at 14:21 on January 20th in UTC. ..



In response to the failure in OpenSea, Twitter and MetaMask that use the API were also affected. Jane Manchun Wong, who is discovering new features of Twitter from app analysis, said, 'OpenSea is down. Twitter uses OpenSea's API to load NFTs. Therefore, Twitter's NFT features are also down. I am doing it. '



Immediately after the failure of OpenSea was revealed, Twitter announced that it added 'an option to set NFT as a profile image' in the monthly paid service 'Twitter Blue'. This is believed to be a Twitter feature that Wong pointed out as 'affected by the OpenSea API failure.'

While Twitter is testing the ability to set NFTs as profile images, it will be available on Twitter Blue ahead of time --GIGAZINE



Also, MetaMask, a software wallet that also used the OpenSea API, has stopped the function to automatically detect new NFTs. MetaMask co-founder Dan Finley told Motherboard, an overseas media company, 'We are caching the data so that the images do not disappear from the wallet. The NFTs that users have are stored in their wallets. Stopping OpenSea means that we haven't been able to auto-detect new NFTs sent to the user's wallet, but users can always find out which NFTs are in their wallet by manually entering the address. '.

Some people criticized that 'Web3, which is said to be a decentralized Internet based on blockchain, is not actually decentralized' after a defect caused by OpenSea's API affected a wide range of services. The overseas media Motherboard reports that it is doing so. 'I think there are too many platforms that rely on OpenSea, which is a single point of failure, especially when OpenSea isn't stable,' Wong said.

Moxie Marlinspike, co-founder of the encrypted messaging app Signal , published a blog post criticizing Web3's centralization about two weeks before the OpenSea failure. In the article, Marlinspike pointed out that MetaMask only uses the OpenSea API to display NFTs, and if the NFTs are removed from OpenSea, they will disappear from MetaMask's wallet as well. I am. As Marlinspike pointed out, a bug in the OpenSea API affected MetaMask users.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey also complains, 'Web3 isn't for people, it's for venture capital and investors.'

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey complains about 'Web3' and has a big debate with Elon Musk --GIGAZINE


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