The Stoner Cats NFT project can no longer be traded at prominent marketplaces like OpenSea, Blur, and Rarible. The moves follow last week’s announcement that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had charged the creators with selling unregistered securities.
The Ethereum NFTs—which are tied to a celebrity-packed animated series—were initially sold in 2021 and have been available to trade across various marketplaces since then. But as of this writing, both OpenSea and Blur do not show any active listings for Stoner Cats NFTs, while Rarible no longer lists the project on its site.
OpenSea still shows the project page, but a representative for the marketplace confirmed to Decrypt that Stoner Cats NFTs can no longer be bought, sold, or transferred via OpenSea. On its Community Standards page, OpenSea notes that because the site is also used as a blockchain explorer for NFTs, it prefers to keep project pages online even if trading has been disabled.
Rarible confirmed to Decrypt that the marketplace “blocked them based on our market monitoring of recent events.” Blur did not immediately respond to Decrypt‘s request for confirmation of a trading ban.
While the NFTs are no longer listed on Rarible and cannot be transacted on OpenSea, they still remain on the blockchain and in the wallets of holders. And they can still be sold at marketplaces that list them—both LooksRare and X2Y2, for example, have active Stoner Cats NFT listings as of this writing.
Stoner Cats was co-created by actress Mila Kunis, whose Orchard Farm Productions studio developed the project. The project sold Ethereum NFTs that enabled access to the six-episode web series, which centers on the exploits of cartoon cats who get high.
