OpenSea acquired Rally, a mobile-focused Web3 platform, to bring token and NFT trading to mobile devices. The acquisition signals OpenSea’s push to develop a mobile-first platform for trading digital assets. According to Rally, users can expect a new OpenSea mobile experience later this year. Rally co-founders Chris Maddern and Christine Hall will join the OpenSea’s leadership team. The duo will bring Rally’s mobile ad token trading expertise into the platform, and Maddern will be OpenSea’s new chief technology officer. OpenSea said that the move will help it build an “onchain everything app,” hinting that it will further expand beyond NFTs and into more Web3-related services. The acquisition marks a push by OpenSea to enter the mobile sector and bring token and NFT trading into a unified experience. Maddern said that they are working on a product that would grow the onchain economy for creators, collectors and traders. The OpenSea vision is to create a platform that allows tokens to complement NFTs and not compete. The decentralized finance (DeFi) and perpetual futures contracts, or “perps,” should be simple and accessible.

Maddern said OpenSea is getting serious about mobile as it’s where users spend most of their time. He added that OpenSea is also exploring artificial intelligence to make crypto safer and more understandable for users. The Web3 platform’s mobile sector expansion follows the May public rollout of its revamped “OS2” platform, which allows users to experience full token trading and support for fungible tokens. At the time, the OpenSea chief marketing officer Adam Hollander told Cointelegraph that the platform had always believed everything onchain should be discoverable in one place. For more information you can see their website https://opensea.io .