Azuki is Not Delisted on Opensea

On 30 Sep, parts of Twitter was abuzz to find Azuki delisted on Opensea. $wab.eth tweeted the breaking news, while others like creativetype and Giancarlo shared screenshots of the emails and notifications they've received, saying an item they own has been delisted. For context, Azuki's 90-day average price is 10.2 ETH, with a trading volume of 9,970 ETH, currently outperforming the blue chip World of Women on Opensea, and is one of the closest contenders to reach Moonbirds and Mutant Apes Yacht Club trading status.

By 1 Oct, Opensea corrected quickly and tweeted officially: "There was an error in our Trust & Safety flagging system and a number of Azuki NFTs were briefly delisted. We DID work fast to resolve the issue + all impacted items have been relisted." Opensea is currently the largest and most well-known NFT trading marketplace, which began with NFTs on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, but earlier this year, started to introduce Solana (SOL) NFTs to its marketplace. NFTazor tweeted, tongue-in-cheek: "ETH highlight of the day: Azuki delisted by Opensea. SOL highlight of the day: Complete blockchain outage."

Execution of blockchain technology for mass adoption in marketplaces still has some work to do to ensure consistent performance and information reliability. Yet despite such a serious boo-boo, the market seems to have recovered quickly without creating too much FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about Azuki or Opensea. Feels like the web3 crowd is becoming more forgiving, and NFTs certainly look like they're here to stay.