Coinbase Jumps After Sign-Up Numbers for NFT Marketplace Revealed

14 October 2021

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Coinbase (COIN) shares rose 6% after reports that the crypto exchange’s new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace had more than one million people on its waitlist to sign up on the first day it was announced earlier this week.

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As of Thursday morning, the waiting list was at 1.35 million, which is four times the 300,0000 users that OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, has, according to a BTIG note.
“We believe the immediate and emphatic reaction of retail customers to its announcement on Tuesday that it would launch a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace by the end of the year has demonstrated its ability to accelerate the transformation of its franchise,” BTIG analyst Mark Palmer, who has a buy rating and $500 price target on Coinbase wrote.
Coinbase’s planned NFT marketplace comes as rival exchange FTX on Tuesday announced it was moving into the non-fungible token (NFT) business with a trading platform for digital collectibles on the Solana blockchain. Trading in NFTs climbed to $10.7 billion in the third quarter, an increase of more than 700% from the previous quarter, according to a report by blockchain analytics firm DappRadar.
BTIG estimates that Coinbase could add $137.5 million in revenue, or about 2% of BTIG’s full year 2021 revenue estimate for the company through the new NFT marketplace.

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