OpenSea to Launch SEA Token in 2026 and Reward Half the Community

NFT marketplace OpenSea will issue its own token, SEA, in the first quarter of 2026, co-founder Devin Finzer confirmed in a post on ￰0￱ token will play a central role in the company’s transformation from a purely NFT platform into a broader marketplace for digital and tokenized ￰1￱ revealed that in October 2025, OpenSea recorded more than $2.6 billion in trading volume, with 90% coming from token ￰2￱ to him, this shift marks the beginning of a strategy to turn OpenSea into a platform for “trading everything” — not just NFTs, but also culture, art, ideas, digital goods and even physical assets. “NFTs were chapter one for ￰3￱ 2021, OpenSea brought the first wave of everyday internet users onchain.

Collectors, artists, gamers, musicians — people who had never opened a wallet — showed up on OpenSea and suddenly owned digital property,” Finzer ￰4￱ will be a core element of that ￰5￱ said the token’s launch was delayed because it “doesn’t deserve to be released and forgotten,” suggesting a long-term strategy rather than a hype ￰6￱ Rewards and Token Buyback Plan OpenSea plans to distribute up to 50% of the total SEA supply to its community, including active users and rewards program ￰7￱ addition, the marketplace will allocate up to 50% of its revenue during the launch phase to buy back SEA tokens, a move that could support price stability and demand in the early ￰8￱ issuance details have not yet been ￰9￱ SEA token was first announced in February 2025, but the official launch is now set for Q1 2026.