Cryptocurrency
"People Can’t See Some NFTs on Twitter, Crypto Wallets After OpenSea Goes Down"
Primary Source ↗Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
Popular NFT marketplace OpenSea suffered an outage that had ripple effects throughout several major services using their APIs, including the browser extension crypto wallet MetaMask. The same day, Twitter announced it was rolling out its support for NFT profile pictures, an announcement that was dampened a bit by collection pages failing to load due to the outage. The widespread effects of the outage highlighted points by many web3 critics, that the ecosystem is hardly as decentralized in practice as it claims to be.
Technical Details
- Vendor / Product
- OpenSea outage
Timeline
- 2022-01-20 Breach occurred
- 2022-01-20 Publicly disclosed