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#redirect [[OpenSea Forced Sale By Old Listing]]
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[[File:Opensea.jpg|thumb|OpenSea]]OpenSea is one of the largest NFT marketplaces online. If an order is placed on the blockchain, it's available for future use unless cancelled or the NFT is no longer in the wallet which the offer applies to. If an NFT is moved from one wallet to another and back again, then OpenSea will fail to display the open order, which can still be executed. Multiple users exploited up to $1.1m worth of NFTs this way, through offers that the NFT owners erroneously thought had been cancelled.
 
This is a global/international case not involving a specific country.<ref name="theverge2-6997" /><ref name="theverge-7214" /><ref name="ginotheghosttwitter-7386" />
 
== About OpenSea ==
"The world’s first and largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital items." "Discover, collect, and sell extraordinary NFTs. OpenSea is the world's first and largest NFT marketplace."
 
"As the first and largest marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens and Semi-Fungible Tokens, OpenSea provides a first-in-class developer platform consisting of an API, SDK, and developer tutorials. Feel free to browse around and get acclimated with developing smart contracts and interacting with NFT data."
 
"Fascinated by the [CryptoKitties] movement that was forming, Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah joined early adopter communities in Discord and started talking to users. With the OpenSea beta launch in December 2017, the first open marketplace for any non-fungible token on the Ethereum blockchain was born."
 
"Valued at $13 billion in a recent funding round, OpenSea has become one of the most valuable companies of the NFT boom, providing a simple interface for users to list, browse, and bid on tokens without interacting directly with the blockchain."
 
"There are [some] straightforward security issues [on OpenSea], which have become newly urgent given the huge quantities of money on their platform."
 
"A [UI] bug in OpenSea has let hackers buy rare NFTs for well below market value, in some cases leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for the original owners — and hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for the apparent thieves." "An interface bug that had been dormant for months let attackers trade on old contracts, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in unintended sales."
 
"The exploit appears to rely on the fact that NFT owners are unaware that old marketplace listings for their NFTs are still active. Those old listings are now being used to purchase NFTs at prices chosen by the seller in the past - which is often well below current market prices."
 
"The bug appears to have been present for weeks and seems to be referenced in at least one tweet from January 1st, 2022. But exploitation of the bug has picked up significantly in the past day: blockchain analytics company Elliptic reported that in a 12-hour stretch before the morning of January 24th, it was exploited at least eight times to “steal” NFTs with a market value of over $1 million."
 
"According to a Twitter thread by software developer Rotem Yakir, the bug is caused by a mismatch between the information available in NFT smart contracts and the information presented by OpenSea’s user interface. Essentially, the attackers are taking advantage of old contracts that persist on the blockchain but are no longer present in the view provided by the OpenSea application."
 
"OpenSea users sell NFTs by setting a “list price” for potential buyers to see. Due to the nature of smart contracts, if a buyer accepts that list price, the NFT is automatically transferred to them. If an owner wants to re-list an NFT for a higher sale price, the proper way to do this is to cancel the first listing, which costs a “gas fee” that might be in the tens or even hundreds of dollars, so some users had skirted around this by transferring the NFT to another wallet, then back to the original wallet. While this technique apparently removed the listing from the information in OpenSea’s front-end display, the original listing remained active on the blockchain and could allegedly be found through the OpenSea API."
 
"** Urgent ** There is an @opensea devastating bug that will keep old listing and allow exploiters to buy the NFT using their API. Immediate action is to move your NFT to a new wallet or wallet without any previous listing. I will add a [case] about it very soon."
 
"The way OS works, is by having their marketplace conduct off-chain to save gas. When you list an item for sale (or bid) you are signing data that validate that you are willing to sell your NFT at this price." "The signature is saved in @opensea's DB off-chain and when someone wants to buy your NFT, they will send to their smart contract your previously signed data where the signature and sale information (such as expiration & price) are validated on-chain before making the transfer."
 
"When you cancel a listing, you are require to preform a transaction, why you might ask? the reason is that someone might save your signed listing (which are public or even their API) and use it later, even if the listing got removed from the UI." "So the transaction on-chain will save the fact that you canceled this sale on their smart contract and even if someone will try to use your signed data from before, the on-chain validation will reject the sale."
 
"So what is this bug and how to avoid it? the bug stems from the fact that previously you could re-list an NFT without canceling it (which you can't now) and all the previous listing are not canceled on-chain, this is why re-listing will NOT work." "Furthermore, transferring a previously listed NFT to back to the wallet that listed it, will not prevent you from this bug. Re-list will not help you too (unless you made sure you cancelled all previous listing)."
 
"And as we shown before sites save old listing and now exploiters can use this information to perform the sale since @opensea smart contract will believe this sale is valid! (which is kinda is)." "Another big problem that @opensea has, is that they don't have order nonce, so even if you made a listing 6 months ago then made another one 4 months ago & canceled it after 1 day, the first list is still valid and may not be visible on the UI."
 
"@LooksRareNFT for example, has the ability to cancel all orders using a nonce so even if you somehow forgotten to cancel a listing, this can make sure you are safer." "To sum up, previously, you could have re-list an NFT without canceling the previous list. Sometimes but not always, If you cancel your new listing, the old one will not appear on the UI but is still valid." "The two options are to cancel the listing directly or to send it to another wallet without transferring it back until the original listing expires." "Generally, I'd say simplest is to just cancel."
 
"NFTs with a market value of $1.1 million have been purchased in this way." "Elliptic has identified at least five attackers who have exploited this loophole to purchase at least twelve NFTs for much less than their market value. These include Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, Cool Cats and Cyberkongz NFTs."
 
"For example at around 7am on January 24, a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT #9991 was purchased for 0.77 ETH ($1,800). This family of NFTs currently sell for at least $198,000. Twenty minutes later the hacker sold the NFT for 84.2 ETH ($196,000) – realizing a profit of $194,000."
 
"One attacker, going by the pseudonym "jpegdegenlove" paid a total of $133,000 for seven NFTs – before quickly selling them on for $934,000 in ether. Five hours later this ether was sent through Tornado Cash, a "mixing" service that is used to prevent blockchain tracing of funds."
 
"Jpegdegenlove also seems to have partially compensated two of their victims - sending 20 ETH ($45,000) to TBALLER and 13 ETH ($30,000) to Vault327."
 
"Another attacker purchased a single Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT for $10,600, before selling it on five hours later for $34,800."
 
"It’s unclear whether OpenSea is treating the situation as an open security flaw or a result of user error. The company did not respond to a request for comment by time of publication."
 
This is a global/international case not involving a specific country.
 
The background of the exchange platform, service, or individuals involved, as it would have been seen or understood at the time of the events.
 
Include:
 
* Known history of when and how the service was started.
* What problems does the company or service claim to solve?
* What marketing materials were used by the firm or business?
* Audits performed, and excerpts that may have been included.
* Business registration documents shown (fake or legitimate).
* How were people recruited to participate?
* Public warnings and announcements prior to the event.
 
Don't Include:
* Any wording which directly states or implies that the business is/was illegitimate, or that a vulnerability existed.
* Anything that wasn't reasonably knowable at the time of the event.
There could be more than one section here. If the same platform is involved with multiple incidents, then it can be linked to a main article page.
 
== The Reality ==
This sections is included if a case involved deception or information that was unknown at the time. Examples include:
 
* When the service was actually started (if different than the "official story").
* Who actually ran a service and their own personal history.
* How the service was structured behind the scenes. (For example, there was no "trading bot".)
* Details of what audits reported and how vulnerabilities were missed during auditing.
 
== What Happened ==
The specific events of the loss and how it came about. What actually happened to cause the loss and some of the events leading up to it.
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== Technical Details ==
This section includes specific detailed technical analysis of any security breaches which happened. What specific software vulnerabilities contributed to the problem and how were they exploited?
 
== Total Amount Lost ==
The total amount lost has been estimated at $1,100,000 USD.
 
How much was lost and how was it calculated? If there are conflicting reports, which are accurate and where does the discrepancy lie?
 
== Immediate Reactions ==
How did the various parties involved (firm, platform, management, and/or affected individual(s)) deal with the events? Were services shut down? Were announcements made? Were groups formed?
 
== Ultimate Outcome ==
What was the end result? Was any investigation done? Were any individuals prosecuted? Was there a lawsuit? Was any tracing done?
 
== Total Amount Recovered ==
The total amount recovered has been estimated at $75,000 USD.
 
What funds were recovered? What funds were reimbursed for those affected users?
 
== Ongoing Developments ==
What parts of this case are still remaining to be concluded?
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== References ==
<references><ref name="theverge2-6997">[https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914081/open-sea-nft-marketplace-web3-fundraising-finzer-a16z How OpenSea took over the NFT trade - The Verge] (Mar 10, 2022)</ref>
 
<ref name="theverge-7214">[https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/24/22899125/opensea-bug-bored-ape-nfts-smart-contract-listings-cancellation An OpenSea bug let attackers snatch Apes from owners at six-figure discounts - The Verge] (Mar 15, 2022)</ref>
 
<ref name="ginotheghosttwitter-7386">[https://twitter.com/GinoTheGhost/status/1481461462350532609 @GinoTheGhost Twitter] (Mar 21, 2022)</ref></references>

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