Blur NFT Marketplace Review: Fees, Features and the 2026 Shutdown

Last Updated: November 3, 2026

Quick Answer: Blur is an Ethereum NFT marketplace and aggregator built for professional traders. It launched in October 2022, charges 0% marketplace fees and offers collection bids, batch buying and Blend, a peer-to-peer NFT lending protocol. Blur announced on October 12, 2026, that its blur.io website will shut down on November 12, 2026, after monthly volume fell more than 99% from its 2023 peak; its smart contracts stay live on-chain and Blend stops matching new loans that day. The BLUR token traded at about $0.0075 on CoinMarketCap at 12:41 UTC on November 3, 2026, down 99.9% from its February 2023 high.

Key Takeaways:

• Closing: the blur.io website shuts down on November 12, 2026, according to the team’s October 12 announcement and a banner on the site itself. The marketplace contracts stay live on-chain, and BLUR holders keep control of the protocol’s fee switch
• Fees: Blur charges 0% marketplace fees (stated on blur.io on November 3, 2026). Buyers pay Ethereum gas, about $0.20 for an NFT sale on Etherscan’s estimate at 12:02 UTC on November 3, and creator royalties where the collection sets them, with a 0.5% minimum
• Safety: Blur’s contracts were audited by Dedaub and in a Code4rena contest in 2022 and 2023. The losses reported by major outlets came from phishing and fake airdrop sites, not from a hack of Blur’s contracts
• Size now: Blur’s monthly volume fell from about $1.43 billion in March 2023 to below $7 million by early 2026, and DefiLlama shows $14.9 million locked in Blur’s bids and lending contracts on November 3, 2026, down from $215.9 million in March 2024
• BLUR token: about $0.0075 and a $21.9 million market cap on November 3. Bithumb and Upbit plan to end BLUR trading on November 30, 2026
• Official site: the only official address is blur.io and the only official X account is @blur_io. “Blursea” is not a Blur product

What Is Blur NFT?

Blur is an Ethereum NFT marketplace and aggregator for professional traders. It was founded by Tieshun Roquerre, known in crypto as Pacman, and raised an $11 million seed round led by Paradigm in March 2022, according to The Block. Blur launched publicly in October 2022 and became the largest Ethereum NFT marketplace by volume in 2023, handling more than 70% of Ethereum NFT trading at its March 2023 peak, according to DefiLlama data cited by CoinDesk.

Collectors focused on curated art may prefer a different venue; see our Foundation NFT marketplace review.

Blur is built for traders, not casual collectors. OpenSea was designed to make NFT buying accessible to everyone, while Blur focuses on fast, data-rich trading for users who place collection bids, sweep floors, manage many positions and run bulk operations. On November 3, 2026, its homepage still showed $7.4 billion in total GMV (gross merchandise value) and 324,966 total users.

Blur has four main products, all reachable through the blur.io website until November 12, 2026:

• Blur Marketplace: the core NFT trading venue with 0% marketplace fees and live floor data
• Blur Aggregator: shows listings from Blur and other marketplaces and routes orders to them
• Blend: peer-to-peer NFT lending and borrowing with no fixed loan term
• BLUR token: the governance and rewards token distributed to active users

How Is Blur Connected to Blast?

Blast is the Ethereum layer-2 network created by Blur’s founder. It launched in November 2023 with backing from Paradigm and Standard Crypto, and Blur tied its Season 3 BLUR rewards to Blast, as the blur.io homepage still says. Blast announced on October 2, 2026, that it would shut down because running the chain cost more than it earned, and it set October 26 as the deadline for withdrawals through its normal interface. Since then, funds left on Blast can only be recovered by calling its bridge contracts on Ethereum directly. Read our report on Blast shutting down its layer 2.

Lending against NFTs is a separate market from trading them. This guide to NFT loans explains how they work.

Is Blur a Crypto Exchange?

No. Blur is an NFT marketplace, not a cryptocurrency exchange: you cannot buy bitcoin or swap tokens on it, and it does not hold an exchange’s customer accounts. You trade NFTs from your own wallet, paying in ETH. Blur’s 0% fee is a marketplace fee on NFT trades, not an exchange trading fee. The BLUR token itself trades on crypto exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, Kraken and OKX, covered in the section on where to buy BLUR below.

Is Blur Shutting Down? What Closes on November 12, 2026

Yes, partly. On October 12, 2026, Blur said in a thread on X that it will stop running the blur.io website on November 12, 2026, and a banner on blur.io on November 3 repeats that the frontend will be deprecated on that date. What changes:

• The website closes. The blur.io trading interface goes offline on November 12, 2026. Blur gave no reason, but its monthly volume had fallen more than 99% from its peak, and Token Terminal records no protocol revenue for the zero-fee marketplace.
• The contracts stay. Blur said its marketplace protocol “will remain operational on-chain” and that BLUR will continue to control the fee switch, the governance setting that decides whether fees are charged.
• Blend stops new loans. Blend stops matching new loans on November 12. Borrowers have until then to repay or let their loans default, and Blur said it will provide a separate tool for withdrawing assets from Blend after the deadline, without giving a date.

Anyone with listings, collection bids, ETH in the Blur Pool used for bidding, or Blend loans should review them before November 12. Our news report on Blur shutting down its marketplace website covers the announcement.

How Does Blur Compare to Other NFT Marketplaces?

Blur has the lowest marketplace fee of any major platform, but only until its website closes on November 12, 2026. Blockchainreporter’s comparison below uses each marketplace’s own fee pages as checked in late October 2026; OpenSea now leads on Ethereum and across chains, while Magic Eden and Tensor lead on Solana.

Sources: blur.io (November 3, 2026); OpenSea, Magic Eden, Tensor, Rarible and LooksRare help centers and documentation (checked October 21 to 29, 2026). Fees can change at any time.

On a $1,000 NFT, the platform fee is $0 on Blur, $10 on OpenSea and $20 on Magic Eden, Tensor or Rarible’s EVM chains, before royalties and gas. For Ethereum collections such as CryptoPunks, Pudgy Penguins and Milady, OpenSea’s 1% is the lowest fee among actively traded marketplaces once Blur’s website closes. Our guide to OpenSea fees compared with other NFT marketplaces has the full breakdown, and our OpenSea review and Magic Eden review cover the two main alternatives.

Blur NFT Marketplace Features

What Fees Does Blur Charge?

Blur charges 0% marketplace fees, as its homepage stated on November 3, 2026, so neither buyers nor sellers pay Blur a platform fee. Two costs still apply:

• Gas: every on-chain action on Ethereum costs gas, paid to the network, not to Blur. Etherscan estimated an NFT sale at about $0.20 at 12:02 UTC on November 3, 2026, with ETH at $2,262. Signing a listing or a bid is free; buying, accepting a bid and depositing ETH cost gas.
• Creator royalties: Blur has applied a minimum 0.5% creator royalty, according to The Block, and sellers can choose to pay more. This model cut creator income across the market in 2023 and pushed OpenSea and others to make royalties optional too.

Trading Tools

Collection bids. Blur lets traders place standing bids on a whole collection instead of single NFTs. A collection bid at 0.5 ETH means any holder can sell into it instantly at that price. Bids are funded with ETH deposited into the Blur Pool contract; DefiLlama counted about $12.7 million in Blur’s bid contracts on November 3, 2026.

Batch listing and sweeping. Users can list many NFTs at once, change many listings in one step, or “sweep the floor” by buying the cheapest listings in a collection in one transaction. Blur advertises “10X faster sweeping.”

Analytics. The interface shows live floor prices, bid depth, recent sales, rarity and portfolio value across held collections.

Aggregation. Blur shows listings from other marketplaces, including OpenSea, next to its own, so buyers can compare prices in one place and buy across venues.

Blend: Blur’s NFT Lending Protocol

Blend (Blur Lending) is a peer-to-peer NFT lending protocol that Blur launched with Paradigm in May 2023. It lets holders borrow ETH against NFTs from collections Blend supports.

How Blend works:

• Borrowing: a holder pledges an NFT as collateral and receives an ETH loan with no fixed expiry. The loan runs until the borrower repays or the lender calls it
• Lending: ETH holders lend against NFTs and earn the interest rate agreed with the borrower
• Buy now, pay later: buyers can pay part of an NFT’s price upfront and borrow the rest against the NFT itself
• No platform fees: Blend charges borrowers and lenders no fees for borrowing, lending or repaying
• Calls and default: when a lender calls a loan, a refinancing auction gives other lenders the chance to take it over at a rising rate. If nobody does and the borrower does not repay, the lender can take the NFT

Leverage on illiquid assets adds risk: when floor prices fall, lenders call loans and borrowers who cannot repay or refinance lose their NFTs. DefiLlama counted about $2.2 million in Blur’s lending contracts on November 3, 2026. Blend stops matching new loans on November 12, 2026. Borrowers can repay or let loans default before then, and Blur says a separate withdrawal tool for assets left in Blend will follow.

BLUR Token

BLUR is Blur’s governance and rewards token. It launched on February 14, 2023, through an airdrop to platform users, and its total supply is 3 billion tokens. Blur says 700 million BLUR went to the community across reward Seasons 1 and 2.

How BLUR was earned: Blur distributed BLUR in seasons based on points from listing NFTs, placing collection bids, trading volume and Blend activity. The points system rewarded the most active traders and helped Blur draw volume away from OpenSea in 2023.

What BLUR does: holders vote on protocol parameters, including the fee switch that would turn marketplace fees on. Blur said on October 12 that BLUR will keep control of this switch after the website closes.

BLUR fell about 34% in the 24 hours around the shutdown announcement, according to CoinGecko data cited by Unchained, and set its all-time low of about $0.0071 on October 26, 2026, according to CoinMarketCap. Live data is on the CoinMarketCap BLUR page. This page gives no price forecast.

Blur in 2026: Market Position

Blur’s position in 2026 reflects both the collapse of NFT trading and its own decline.

Where Blur led: Blur’s zero fees and token rewards took it past OpenSea in 2023. Its monthly volume peaked at about $1.43 billion in March 2023, according to Token Terminal data cited by ForkLog, and its share of Ethereum NFT trading was above 70% that month (DefiLlama data cited by CoinDesk). Blur was still active in 2025: on August 4, 2025, Blur was the largest NFT marketplace by volume that day, and on July 14, 2025, Pudgy Penguins and Blur led the NFT market.

What changed since 2025: Blur’s monthly volume fell below $7 million by early 2026, a drop of more than 99.5% from its peak, according to the same Token Terminal and DefiLlama figures. OpenSea rebuilt its platform as OS2 in 2025 and is now the main Ethereum marketplace, and Magic Eden narrowed to Solana in March 2026.

Current data (November 3, 2026):

The value locked in Blur’s contracts is down 93% from its March 2024 peak and 66% from a year earlier. We found no tracker that publishes a current, dated marketplace share for Blur, so this page does not give one. Follow the market in our NFT news section and the DefiLlama Blur page.

Is Blur Safe? Security Record, Audits and Trust

Blur’s smart contracts have been audited and have not been reported hacked, but its users have been major phishing targets, and the website’s closure on November 12, 2026 is now the main practical risk.

Audits:

• Dedaub audited Blur’s exchange contracts (versions 1.0 and 1.1, June 2022) and the January 20, 2023 upgrade that added the BLUR token, governance and airdrop contracts. Dedaub’s report for the 2023 review lists no critical, high or medium findings and two low-severity findings, both resolved.
• Code4rena ran a public audit contest on the Blur Exchange contracts from November 11 to 14, 2022, which found one high and four medium-severity issues, in a report published on December 8, 2022.

Incidents (dated):

• February to March 2023: fake BLUR airdrop websites drained more than $300,000 from users who connected wallets and approved transactions, according to TrustCheck data reported by Cointelegraph on March 16, 2023.
• July 2024: a user lost NFTs worth about $240,000, including six Bored Apes, after signing a malicious message on a phishing site; the attacker listed them at 1 wei as private sales only the attacker could buy, Decrypt reported on July 3, 2024.

Trust factors: Blur does not require an account or KYC; you trade from your own wallet, so you keep custody of NFTs you do not list or pledge. ETH deposited for bids sits in the Blur Pool contract, and NFTs pledged in Blend sit in the lending contract. Token Terminal records no protocol revenue from the zero-fee marketplace, and its founder’s other project, Blast, shut down in October 2026. These are reasons to move active positions off Blur before November 12 rather than to start new ones. Our guide on how to verify crypto news and rumors explains how to check claims like these.

What Is Blursea? Official Site and Look-Alike Warnings

“Blursea” is not a Blur product or an official Blur website. The word is a misspelling or a blend of “Blur” and “OpenSea”, and names like it are often used by look-alike sites. The only official address is blur.io, and Blur’s October 12 announcement said “the only official Blur account is @blur_io” on X.

How to stay safe around the shutdown:

• Type blur.io yourself or use a bookmark; do not follow links from ads, direct messages or replies
• Treat any “Blur claim”, “BLUR airdrop”, “Blend withdrawal” or “migration” site as suspicious unless @blur_io links to it; Blur’s promised Blend withdrawal tool will be announced there
• Read every wallet prompt; never approve “setApprovalForAll” or sign listing messages on a site you did not mean to visit
• Review and revoke old token approvals with your wallet or a token approval checker
• Keep valuable NFTs in a separate wallet, ideally on a hardware device; see our Ledger review

Blur Pros and Cons

Pros:

• 0% marketplace fees, the lowest of any major NFT platform
• Collection bids that work like an order book for NFTs
• Floor sweeping and batch listing for managing many positions
• Aggregated listings from other marketplaces in one interface
• Blend, the most developed NFT lending product built into a marketplace
• Audited contracts with no reported contract hack

Cons:

• Website closes November 12, 2026, and Blend stops matching new loans on the same date
• Ethereum only, with no Solana, Base or Polygon support
• No mobile app and a data-dense interface that can intimidate beginners
• BLUR is down 99.9% from its high, and Bithumb and Upbit plan to end BLUR trading on November 30, 2026
• Royalties effectively optional above 0.5%, which creators dislike
• Lending against NFTs can lead to liquidations when floors fall
• Monthly volume down more than 99% from its 2023 peak

Verdict: Who Should Use Blur in November 2026?

Blur was the best tool for high-volume Ethereum NFT traders, and its 0% fee still makes it the cheapest venue until November 12, 2026. With nine days left on November 3, it suits existing users closing positions: cancelling bids, withdrawing Blur Pool ETH, repaying Blend loans and selling into bids. New users and anyone who wants a platform to keep using should pick OpenSea for Ethereum and multichain NFTs, or Magic Eden or Tensor for Solana.

How to Use Blur NFT Marketplace

The steps below work only until the blur.io website closes on November 12, 2026.

How to Make Your First Purchase on Blur

1. Set up an Ethereum wallet. Install a wallet such as MetaMask or Coinbase Wallet, or connect a hardware wallet such as Ledger, and store the recovery phrase offline. Blur needs no account or KYC.
2. Fund it with ETH on Ethereum mainnet. Buy ETH on an exchange and withdraw it to your wallet address on the Ethereum network. Add a little extra for gas, about $0.20 for an NFT sale on November 3, 2026.
3. Open the real site. Type blur.io into your browser and check for the banner about the November 12 deprecation.
4. Connect and sign in. Click “Connect Wallet”, choose your wallet and sign the login message. Signing this message is free and does not move funds.
5. Check the collection. Search for the collection, then compare its contract address with the address on the project’s official site or X account. Look at the floor price, recent sales and royalty rate.
6. Buy. Select an NFT and choose “Buy now”, or use “Sweep” to buy several floor NFTs at once. Your wallet shows the total, including any royalty and gas; confirm only if it matches.
7. Confirm and store. Wait for the transaction to confirm, then check the NFT in your Portfolio tab or on Etherscan. Consider moving valuable NFTs to a hardware wallet.

Listing, Bidding and Lending Until November 12

• List an NFT: open the Portfolio tab, select one or more NFTs, set a price and sign the listing. Batch listing prices several NFTs at once
• Place a collection bid: deposit ETH into the Blur Pool, then set your bid price and quantity in the collection’s bid book. Any seller can fill it instantly
• Use Blend: borrow ETH against a supported NFT or lend ETH from the Loans dashboard, until new loan matching stops on November 12

After the website closes, your NFTs stay in your wallet and can be listed on other marketplaces such as OpenSea. Browse more platforms in our NFT marketplace reviews.

Where to Buy BLUR Token

BLUR traded on 114 market pairs on November 3, 2026, according to CoinMarketCap. The main ones:

Centralized exchanges (CEX):

• Binance: BLUR/USDT, BLUR/TRY and BLUR/USDC. Tokenpost reported in June 2026 that Binance had placed BLUR under its Monitoring Tag, which Binance uses for tokens it reviews more closely and may delist. Binance has also been reopening withdrawals in phases since its October 29 hack, with a second phase from 04:00 UTC on November 3, so check its announcements before moving funds
• Coinbase: BLUR/USD
• Kraken: BLUR/USD and BLUR/EUR
• OKX, Bybit, KuCoin and Gate: BLUR/USDT
• Bithumb (South Korea): ends BLUR trading at 15:00 KST on November 30, 2026, with withdrawals until December 30, 2026, saying BLUR “no longer meets the standards for maintaining trading support” (announcement reported by Odaily on October 30)
• Upbit (South Korea): plans to end BLUR trading support on November 30, 2026, after adding BLUR to its trading warning list, Tokenpost reported on October 30

Decentralized exchanges (DEX): BLUR is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum and can be swapped on Ethereum decentralized exchanges.

Contract address (Ethereum): 0x5283d291dbcf85356a21ba090e6db59121208b44

Always check the contract address on CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap before buying on a DEX. This is general information, not investment advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Blur NFT marketplace?
Blur is an Ethereum NFT marketplace and aggregator for professional traders, launched in October 2022 by a team led by Tieshun Roquerre, known as Pacman, with seed funding led by Paradigm. It is known for zero marketplace fees, collection bids, floor sweeping and Blend, its NFT lending protocol. Its blur.io website will shut down on November 12, 2026, while its contracts stay on-chain.

Is Blur shutting down?
Blur’s website, blur.io, will stop running on November 12, 2026, according to the team’s October 12 announcement and a banner on the site. The marketplace contracts stay live on Ethereum, and BLUR holders keep control of the fee switch. Blend stops matching new loans the same day. Blur gave no reason, but its monthly trading volume had fallen more than 99% from 2023.

What fees does Blur charge?
Blur charges 0% marketplace fees, so neither buyers nor sellers pay a platform fee. Users pay Ethereum gas, which Etherscan estimated at about $0.20 for an NFT sale on November 3, 2026, and creator royalties, with a 0.5% minimum and more if the seller chooses. For comparison, OpenSea charges 1% on NFT sales, and Magic Eden and Tensor charge 2%.

Is Blur safe to use?
Blur’s contracts were audited by Dedaub and through a Code4rena contest in 2022 and 2023, and no hack of its contracts has been reported. The main losses came from phishing: fake airdrop sites drained over $300,000 in 2023, and one user lost about $240,000 in NFTs in 2024 after a malicious signature. The website closes on November 12, 2026.

How do I buy my first NFT on Blur?
Install an Ethereum wallet such as MetaMask, fund it with ETH on Ethereum mainnet, type blur.io into your browser and connect the wallet. Sign the free login message, search the collection and check its contract address against the project’s official site. Choose Buy now or Sweep, confirm the total in your wallet, and do it before November 12, 2026.

What is Blursea?
Blursea is not a Blur product or an official Blur website. The name looks like a mix of Blur and OpenSea, and similar names are used by look-alike phishing sites. Blur’s only official address is blur.io and its only official X account is @blur_io. Never connect a wallet or sign messages on a site reached through ads or direct messages.

Is Blur a cryptocurrency exchange?
No. Blur is an NFT marketplace where users buy, sell, bid on and borrow against Ethereum NFTs from their own wallets. It does not offer token trading or exchange accounts. Its 0% fee applies to NFT trades. The BLUR token is traded on crypto exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, Kraken and OKX, although Bithumb and Upbit plan to end BLUR trading on November 30.

What happens to Blend loans and bids when Blur closes?
Blend stops matching new loans on November 12, 2026. Borrowers can repay their loans or let them default before that date, and Blur says it will release a tool for withdrawing assets left in Blend afterward. Users with collection bids or ETH in the Blur Pool should cancel bids and withdraw funds through blur.io before the website closes.

What is the BLUR token price today?
BLUR traded at about $0.0075 at 12:41 UTC on November 3, 2026, according to CoinMarketCap, with a market cap of about $21.9 million. That is down 99.9% from its all-time high of $5.19 on February 14, 2023, and down 66% over 30 days. It set an all-time low of about $0.0071 on October 26, 2026.

Is BLUR being delisted?
Two South Korean exchanges are ending BLUR trading. Bithumb stops trading at 15:00 KST on November 30, 2026, and allows withdrawals until December 30, saying BLUR no longer meets its standards. Upbit plans to end trading the same day, Tokenpost reported. Binance has BLUR under its Monitoring Tag, which marks tokens for closer review and possible delisting.

What are the best alternatives to Blur?
For Ethereum and other EVM chains, OpenSea is the largest active marketplace, with a 1% fee on NFT sales and support for dozens of blockchains. For Solana collections, Magic Eden and Tensor charge 2%, and Tensor charges nothing to the maker side of a trade. Rarible charges 2% on Ethereum, Base and Polygon and 1.5% on Solana.

Data sources: blur.io (homepage and site banner, November 3, 2026), Blur’s October 12, 2026 announcement on X as reported by Unchained, CoinMarketCap (12:41 UTC) and CoinGecko, DefiLlama (10:32 UTC), CryptoSlam, Etherscan gas tracker (12:02 UTC), Dedaub and Code4rena audit reports, marketplace help centers, and reporting by The Block, CoinDesk, ForkLog, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Odaily and Tokenpost, as of November 3, 2026.

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