Is OpenSea's API the Dominant Market Place?

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Doye: I think an emerging reality, in a real criticism here, is that at the end of the day, andreson orwits are going to invest a musha company control the user experience for a lots of people. The key difference though, when you have it protocol there, is that the user can switch, right? So if they're client, if i'm hosting with raxba, or i'm using email through hot mail, and they start misbehaving and starting to charge me too much, or whatever it might be, i can switch. That's a big difference than twitter. Like, i'm not happy with twitter right now, i and

Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which is behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club among others. He is also a prolific user of Twitter, where he posts lengthy threads about crypto and web3. He is at once one of the biggest investors in the space, and its biggest booster.

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