NFTs Worth $100,000 Said to Be Destroyed by OpenSea Bug: All You Need to Know

Ethereum Name Server Nick Johnson first brought word of the bug.

NFTs Worth $100,000 Said to Be Destroyed by OpenSea Bug: All You Need to Know

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NFTs worth ETH 28.44 were affected by the OpenSea bug

Highlights
  • NFTs worth ETH 28.44 were lost due to the bug
  • Ethereum Name Server developer Nick Johnson tweeted on the bug
  • Johnson spotted the bug while attempting to transfer an ENS name
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NFTs worth $100,000 (roughly Rs. 73.4 lakhs) were accidentally "burned" due to a bug in the OpenSea marketplace. Nick Johnson, the lead developer of Ethereum Name Server (ENS), shared the news on Twitter on September 8. He said when he transferred an ENS name, it went to a burn address, meaning it was accidentally sent to an address that nobody controls and thus can no longer be moved or retrieved. The bug has been patched since, but it has brought into light the blockchain technology's vulnerability and lack of maturity.

In a Twitter thread, Johnson described in detail what actually happened. He said he “accidentally burned” the first ENS name ever registered. The ENS is a service that lets users associate blockchain addresses with domain names to make it easier to identify transactions as easy-to-understand names, rather than complicated blockchain addresses.

The developer said the incident happened when he attempted to transfer an ENS titled rilxxlir.eth to his personal account from an ENS account. He said he had planned to offer the ENS as an NFT — a unique digital token tied to a digital asset. He tried to make the account transfer through OpenSea and discovered the bug. Instead of sending the ENS to his account, it was sent to a mysterious burn address.

He immediately got in touch with OpenSea, when he got to know that he was the “first and apparently only” victim of the bug introduced to their transfer page recently.

Later, he said 30 more transactions from 21 different accounts were also affected. The value of all NFTs lost totalled ETH 28.44 – about $100,000 at the time. As of September 10 (3:09pm IST), Ether price in India stood at Rs. 2.68 lakhs.

In recent months, NFTs gained incredible popularity and set price records. Earlier this month, an NFT project selling a set of eight randomly generated numbers from 0–14 and stored on a blockchain reached a market capitalisation of ETH 10,256 (roughly $40 million/ Rs. 294 crores).


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