OpenSea has confirmed that its long-awaited SEA token is slated for a Q1 2026 launch, alongside a token model that gives 50% of supply to the community and directs 50% of platform revenue at launch into SEA buybacks. The company says more than half of the community allocation would be available through an initial claim for existing users and prior “OG” reward-program participants, while the rest would be distributed over time. The announcement matters because it marks OpenSea’s shift from a primarily NFT marketplace into a broader onchain trading platform. OpenSea says it is expanding beyond NFTs into token and other digital-asset trading, and it reported $2.6 billion in trading volume this month, with most of that volume reportedly coming from token trades. That surge helps frame the company’s push to tie SEA more tightly to platform activity, including planned staking features tied to collections and tokens listed on OpenSea.

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