On September 30, OpenSea terminated all market orders for the NFT Azuki initiative. The official team of Azuki stated that they had communicated with the NFT trading platform regarding the delisting email that had been issued to the owner of Azuki. The product manager, Demna, and the official Azuki Twitter handle kept the public informed.
Demna referred to the problem as a technical glitch on OpenSea, and the NFT marketplace stated its own on Friday morning, announcing an error in their Trust & Safety flagging mechanism, "briefly delisting" Azuki NFTs from the site.
The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection also encountered an identical problem in June when OpenSea temporarily removed some of the BAYC collection. Generally, this is not a complex or new problem, but its implications might be significant. Fortunately for Azuki, the floor price remained virtually unchanged both before and after the delisting debacle on Friday, falling from slightly above 10ETH to just below 10ETH and presently resting at 9.97ETH at the time of posting.
On September 27, OpenSea announced the expansion of its service to include digital goods produced on Optimism in a blog post. The partnership followed the announcement by OpenSea that it would support Arbitrum, another Ethereum scaler. When announcing its collaboration with Optimism, OpenSea noted the integration of well-known Optimism-backea severald businesses, including Apetimism, Bored Town, MotorHeadz, and OptiChads.