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Devin Finzer

CEO & Co-Founder, Opensea

Search every verified Devin Finzer interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At NFT.NYC 2025, OpenSea CEO and co-founder Devin Finzer discussed the company's approach to long-term sustainability and the lessons learned from rapid growth. He emphasized the importance of building a durable product and maintaining a small, aligned team, stating that a small group of talented, aligned people can move faster and accomplish more than a large organization. Finzer also highlighted the potential for "agentic trading," noting that it is easier to integrate AI agents with decentralized liquidity pools than with centralized exchanges. Finzer commented on the shifting regulatory environment, describing the SEC's previous posture toward crypto companies as "extremely aggressive, unfair" and saying that stance has "completely turned around." He argued that regulation should not be "one-size-fits-all," as the majority of NFTs are art and collectibles rather than financial assets, and that blanket regulation would be an "unthoughtful approach."

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“The overarching philosophy behind good regulation is that it shouldn't be one-size-fits-all — the vast majority of NFTs are art collectibles and obviously not financial assets like securities, so blanket regulation would be an unthoughtful approach.”

“One thing that really blew my mind was back when the SEC sort of had this extremely aggressive, unfair posture towards crypto companies — basically saying every major player or good actor in the space would be hit with an investigation and a Wells notice because, you know, we just don't like crypto; now that has completely turned around.”

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