The most well-known decentralized marketplace said it had no choice but to close unless its community donates.
Decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar said on Friday that it will close down unless it receives more financial support.
OpenBazaar said in an announcement that its services—seed nodes, API wallet, exchange rate API—would be shutting down unless significant donations are sent. A representative from OpenBazaar told Decrypt “a We don’t have a solid target at the moment but a soft one for us is 100k to keep it up for the next year.”
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https://decrypt.co/43028/decentralized-marketplace-openbazaar-to-close-unless-community-donates