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Magic Eden founders and long-time friends Jack Lu, Sidney Zhang, Zhuoxun Yin and Zhoujie Zhou, collectively draw experience from notable Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook, Uber, Google, Coinbase, FTX, dYdX, Amazon. They saw an opportunity to create major impact in the culture and community of the NFT space, and founded Magic Eden: today's top community-centric cross-chain marketplace.
Magic Eden
After four friends discovered NFTs and its tremendous potential, Magic Eden was born. With backgrounds across crypto, DeFi, consumer internet companies and management consulting, they identified gaps in existing NFT marketplaces and created something new.
Magic Eden has built the most liquid secondary marketplace and are the first marketplace to implement bidding, rarity index, and a dedicated minting platform that automatically connects to their secondary marketplace.
The People Behind Magic Eden
Sidney Zhang - Chief Technology Officer
Sidney started in crypto with his first crypto company working on the Bitcoin Developer API in 2013. He joined Uber in 2015 as one of the Founding Engineers at Uber Eats, where he worked on Uber Eats from zero till it hit the moon. Sidney subsequently spent a few years at Uber Advanced Technologies Group working on self-driving production modeling and research.
Jack Lu - Chief Executive Officer
Jack got into crypto in 2013, when he started hacking on bitcoin wallet apps. Before co-founding Magic Eden, Jack worked at a crypto exchange, Google as a Product Manager and as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
Zhuoxun Yin - Chief Operating Officer
Zhuoxun has been full time in crypto since 2017 as the second employee at dYdX and as a Senior Product Manager at Coinbase. Before entering the crypto rabbit hole, he spent the early part of his career in strategy at early-stage companies and advising corporate clients at Bain & Company.
Zhuojie Zhou - Chief Engineer
Rex started his crypto journey with crypto mining around 2014. He was an Early Engineer at Uber, Checkr, and recently was a Staff Engineer at Facebook AI working on PyTorch Dev Infra before co-founding Magic Eden. He is deeply passionate about the open-source developer community and has created Flagr, OpenMock, Open Privacy Vault and DSRHub.
Magic Eden has built the most liquid secondary marketplace and are the first marketplace to implement bidding, rarity index, and a dedicated minting platform that automatically connects to their secondary marketplace.
Core secondary marketplace
Magic Eden offer creators the greatest liquidity, holding over 90% market share for secondary trading volume on certain Blockchains and majority share on others
Launchpad
Launchpad is Magic Eden's exclusive minting platform. They accept 3% of all Launchpad applications and feature only the best projects.
Benefits
The greatest exposure and widest reach on Web 3
The greatest potential for secondary trading volume post-mint
A hassle-free mint with dedicated development support
Whitelabel marketplaces
Partner with Magic Eden by powering your own marketplace or mint button with their tech under your hood. Raydiumâs NFT marketplace, Okay Bearsâ Bear Market and Exodusâ mobile wallet NFT marketplace, are all powered by Magic Eden.
Partnerships
Join global brands and leaders, and drop your NFT collections with Magic Eden! From white-glove partnerships to something completely new, they want to hear your bright ideas.
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