Porsche NFT trading volume nears $5M: Nifty Newsletter, Jan 25–31

cointelegraph.com:

In this week’s newsletter, read about how Moonbirds founder Kevin Rose lost nonfungible tokens (NFTs) worth more than $1.1 million. Find out why an NFT collector is suing NFT marketplace OpenSea over locking his account for three months and how the Porsche NFT collection gained almost $5 million in sales volume, despite a failed launch. In other news, find out how NFT trademarks could potentially be a reliable signal for NFT traders. Lastly, professionals within the Web3 space shared various ways to combat NFT theft. 

Moonbirds co-founder Kevin Rose lost over $1.1 million in NFTs after falling victim to a phishing scam. According to various analysts, Rose approved a malicious signature that let the attacker transfer tokens from his wallet. An on-chain analyst named “Quit” on Twitter said that the malicious signature was enabled by the Seaport marketplace contract, which is the platform that powers the OpenSea NFT marketplace.

After the hack, Rose urged his followers on Twitter to avoid buying NFTs from the Squiggles collection until everything has been flagged to avoid purchasing stolen NFTs.

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An NFT collector has taken legal action against OpenSea for various allegations, including locking his account for over three months. Speaking to Cointelegraph, NFT investor Robbie Acres shared that two of his NFTs were stolen through a phishing scam, which he reported to the NFT platform.

However, Acres claimed that the marketplace asked him to perjure himself before finally unlocking the account after three months, resulting in alleged financial losses. Responding to the allegations, OpenSea claimed the theft happened outside its marketplace and had already disabled the items and unlocked the account.

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