OpenSea's Pre-SEA Rewards Opp
Among the most interesting opportunities in NFTs right now is OpenSea's Rewards Pool. The last prong in the marketplace's roadmap before the $SEA token launch, it offers two things: 1) a chance to earn prizes (e.g. coins like $ARB and $SOL + NFTs like Bored Apes and Pudgy Penguins), and 2) a chance to up your $SEA airdrop.
OpenSea plans to announce more specifics about $SEA in "early October," though the team has already confirmed that progress in its current rewards program "will play a meaningful role" in their token plans.
As such, we know there are two main ways to earn $SEA:
- The first way is historical platform activity, as past OpenSea users are slated to receive a distinct, retroactive airdrop allocation.
- The second way is racking up "Treasures" in this final pre-token rewards campaign, which also gives you a chance to win coins and NFTs from the Rewards Pool prizes.
Trading for Treasure
Historical activity is locked in at this point, though it's simple to make progress on Treasures. However, there are less than 3 weeks left in this program, after which people can open their chests and claim their loot, so I wanted to highlight the basics here in case people wanted to make final pushes.
Essentially, right now OpenSea's sweeping 50% of its platform fees toward building up the coins and NFTs in the Rewards Pool. The combined value of these prizes is currently worth over $1.7M.
To get started here, you'd head to opensea.io/rewards, sign in, link your desired wallets, and then claim your starter chest.
There are 12 levels of chests, each with 3 progress tiers. The first "Wood" chest is easy to progress through, but it will take considerable activity to unlock the highest ones like the "Sapphire" chest.
Ultimately, though, every chest will contain a Treasure once this reward campaign ends on October 15th, and higher level chests will receive better Treasures and thus 1) better prizes from the Rewards Pool, and 2) larger consideration when it comes to the $SEA distribution.
The name of the game, then, is progressing your chest as far as you can while you still can. To rank your OpenSea points up, you've got 3 main options:
- Buy NFTs from verified collections (look for blue checkmarks)
- Buy or sell fungible tokens (+20 chains supported, from Abstract to Unichain)
- Complete Voyages (daily quests that offer bonus points)
It's also possible to earn surprise points drops in the form of "Shipments," so keep your eyes peeled for these over the coming weeks, too.
Personally, I've started checking in once per day to knock out any Voyages I can. You might consider doing the same. The $SEA airdrop could become the biggest the NFT space has ever seen, and the Rewards Pool prizes are nothing to sneeze at either, so it's worth diving in here I say!