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 |  July 6, 2023 3:55 PM PDT
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OpenSea, the non-fungible token marketplace that rocketed to a $13.3 billion
valuation at the peak of the crypto boom, is looking for a new senior policy and
government affairs executive after Loni Mahanta, the policy executive it hired
from Zillow, quietly left the company after just over a year.

In her first interview since her exit in late April, Mahanta declined to speak
on the specifics of her departure, but alluded to the challenges of leading
policy work for a top NFT company in a murky regulatory landscape. “The industry
still has a lot of work to do on explaining the basic understanding of
blockchain technology,” Mahanta said.


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