ChainCatcher news, Opensea officially announced on the X platform that it has officially launched the Seaport 1.6 NFT marketplace protocol.This protocol introduces a new feature enabled by the Ethereum Cancun upgrade, called Seaport hooks, which is similar to Uniswap v4 hooks. The Seaport hooks functionality allows developers to build applications that extend the utility and liquidity of NFTs. In some operations, the gas fees for Seaport 1.6 are 5% cheaper than those for Seaport 1.5.

ChainCactehr news, Yuga Labs announced that, in light of OpenSea's announcement yesterday regarding the mandatory royalty opt-out plan, it will implement optional creator royalties on all NFT secondary sales after February 2024. In response, Yuga Labs will gradually cease support for all upgradeable contracts and new collections on OpenSea SeaPort, aiming to complete this by February 2024 in conjunction with OpenSea.Yuga Labs stated: "Creator royalties should be protected so that creators can receive proper compensation for their work."

ChainCatcher message, OpenSea Seaport has been upgraded to version 1.4, supporting the listing of multiple NFTs with a single signature. OpenSea stated that it will stop accepting Seaport v1.1 orders via API within 7 days and will officially deprecate Seaport v1.1 on March 15. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, OpenSea protocol development lead 0age tweeted that OpenSea Seaport v1.4 has been deployed and is now in use. This version improves upon some issues present in v1.2 and v1.3, and the "developer preview" version is not recommended for production.It is reported that Seaport is used for securely and efficiently buying and selling NFTs, allowing bidders to offer some ETH / ERC20 / ERC721 / ERC1155 items, while also supporting a "tip" feature. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, OpenSea tweeted that it has launched a project aggregation service based on the open-source NFT protocol Seaport. Currently, OpenSea has initiated an experimental program to aggregate NFT markets and projects from the Seaport protocol, with the first batch of projects including the Ethereum domain service bulk processing tool Ens.vision, the generative art NFT market Sansa, and the music NFT project Sound.xyz. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Web3 data analyst Panda Jackson tweeted that the NFT market Blur has created a new NFT trading system by leveraging OpenSea's Seaport, bypassing OpenSea's blacklist control. Since Seaport is not on OpenSea's blacklist, NFT projects that were blacklisted by Blur can now be traded through the new system, enforcing royalties. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist Technology founder Yu Xian tweeted: "NFTs marked as blacklisted by OpenSea can be sold by hackers through the matchAdvancedOrders function of the OpenSea Seaport protocol. This bypasses OpenSea's security policy (blacklisted items cannot be sold), but it requires a buyer to bid on the offer." (source link)