What Is Blur? The NFT Marketplace Closing Its Website on November 12, 2026

Blur announced the change in a thread on its official X account on 12 October 2026 ¹. What it said:

• The blur.io website will stop operating on 12 November 2026. Blur gave no reason ¹.
• The marketplace contracts stay on-chain. Orders can still settle through the contracts, and other interfaces can connect to them ¹². BLUR holders keep control of the fee switch, the setting that decides whether the protocol charges a fee ¹.
• Blend stops matching new loans on 12 November 2026. Borrowers have until then to repay, or their loans can default ¹.
• A withdrawal tool will follow. Blur said it plans a separate interface for withdrawing assets from Blend after the deadline, without giving a date ¹.

What users should do before 12 November: review open listings and bids in your Blur portfolio and cancel any you no longer want; if you borrowed on Blend, repay or accept that the lender may take your NFT; and withdraw any ETH or NFTs you can while the official site is still up. Rely only on announcements from @blur_io. Blur has warned that impersonators are posting fake announcements ¹, and wind-downs are a common setting for phishing links that promise "migration" or "claims."

The announcement came ten days after Blast, an Ethereum layer-2 network also founded by Roquerre, said it would shut down because its costs exceeded its revenue ¹.

Blur is a non-custodial marketplace: you connect an Ethereum wallet, and NFTs stay in your wallet until a trade settles through Blur's contracts. Its interface was designed for speed and volume, with real-time floor prices, sweeping (buying many NFTs from a collection in one transaction across several marketplaces) and portfolio analytics ³⁶.

Blur is also an aggregator: listings from other marketplaces appeared alongside its own, so a buyer could see and buy items listed elsewhere ³⁶. Traders could place collection-wide bids, which became a central part of how Blur's token rewards were earned.

Blur says users carried out $7.4 billion in total trading through the platform and that it had nearly 325,000 users, figures it does not date ⁶.

Blur charges no marketplace fee, according to its site ⁶. Data cited by CoinDesk show the protocol collected no marketplace fee revenue over the past three years ². Buyers and sellers still pay Ethereum gas, and some sales include creator royalties.

Royalties were a point of contention. At launch Blur took the position that royalties could not be enforced on-chain and used token airdrops to encourage traders to pay them ³. Royalty handling on NFT marketplaces has changed several times since. Check the terms shown at the time of each sale.

Blend, launched on 1 May 2023, lets NFT holders borrow ETH using an NFT as collateral without selling it ⁵. Dan Robinson of Paradigm contributed to building it, and its contracts were audited by Code4rena and ChainLight ⁵.

Loans have no fixed end date. A borrower can repay at any time; a lender who wants out starts a Dutch auction to find a new lender at a new rate, and if no one takes over the loan, the borrower is liquidated and the lender receives the NFT ⁵.

After 12 November 2026, Blend will no longer match new loans, and borrowers who have not repaid face default under these terms ¹.

BLUR is the governance token of the Blur DAO, supported by the Blur Foundation ⁴. Blur distributed it through airdrops and trading-reward seasons; its site says 700 million BLUR went out across the first two seasons, and a third season ran on Blast ⁶. BLUR holders control the marketplace fee switch ¹. The token gives no claim on Blur's revenue, and the marketplace has earned no fee revenue ². CoinPulse does not cover BLUR price forecasts.

Blur took more than 70% of Ethereum NFT trading in March 2023, when monthly volume reached about $1.43 billion. By March 2026 monthly volume had fallen below $7 million, according to DefiLlama data cited by CoinDesk ². The decline came as overall NFT trading fell and traders moved elsewhere.

• Interface shutdown. After 12 November 2026 the official website will not be available for managing listings, bids or Blend positions ¹. Third-party interfaces and direct contract interaction carry their own risks.
• Signature and approval phishing. NFT traders are often targeted with malicious signature requests. Revoke approvals you no longer need, and see crypto phishing.
• Lending liquidation. Blend borrowers can lose their NFT if a loan is not refinanced or repaid ⁵.
• Thin markets. With volume down more than 99% from its peak ², selling some collections quickly may be difficult.