earns $144.5M in fees, creators earn 76% in Q3 2022

[{"selector":"#anim-873def41-1f9e-43a6-b1f5-69eb2560307f","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":0,"duration":600,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-3d34353b-fe3f-437f-b70a-d450159becc5","keyframes":{"transform":["translate3d(-112.15806%, 0px, 0)","translate3d(0px, 0px, 0)"]},"delay":0,"duration":600,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] OpenSea recently announced its 3rd quarter sales of the year 2022. According to the source, the largest NFT marketplace earned $144.5 million in fees, while creators earned 76% of the estimate. OpenSea recently announced its 3rd quarter sales of the year 2022. According to the source, the largest NFT marketplace earned $144.5 million in fees, while creators earned 76% of the estimate.

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OpenSea has always been a pro-creator platform giving artists the freedom to earn their living without any third-party involvement; however, it does charge a 2.5% sale fee for posting NFTs.

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Nonetheless, creators would have earned more if the overall market volume was up. In the 3rd quarter, OpenSea managed to earn only $349 million; in January it recorded $5.2B in sales.

The alarming decline in NFT volume sales has caused a lot of stress to the creators because this is obviously their source of living. Till September, OpenSea failed to hike up and dropped 90%.

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