Blur
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Protocols built on Blast have accrued nearly $1 billion in TVL in the two weeks since the layer-2 went to mainnet
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Blur’s post-token airdrop surge in Feb. led to an 80% trading volume dominance, leaving OpenSea at 15.5%, Galaxy Research found
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Azuki NFTs are proving the most popular with borrowers and lenders on the new Blur peer-to-peer loans protocol, Blend
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Blend became the largest NFT lending protocol by volume and user share within 24 hours of launching
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Your guide to the brave new world of NFT lending – how does it work and will it continue?
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OpenSea might be handling more NFT trades each day, but newcomer Blur is still far ahead in terms of volume
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Institutional NFT traders are diving into Blur’s new crypto lending protocol, dubbed Blend
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The marketplace said it wants to cater to its “power users,” those professionals who have extensive knowledge of the NFT landscape
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Decentralized exchange Uniswap and NFT marketplace Blur top the ETH burned leaderboard in the past 30 days
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Upstart NFT platform Blur wants to keep users loyal and away from rival marketplaces with a crypto airdrop worth hundreds of millions
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Some might have expected Blur NFT volumes to collapse once its crypto airdrop finalized, but they’re still at all-time high
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There is a total supply of 3 billion BLUR tokens, and 360 million were claimable by users on Tuesday
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Upstart NFT marketplace Blur tells creators to block their collections from trading on OpenSea
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Blur has rewarded its NFT traders with a brand new token airdrop and it’s already seeing some trademark crypto volatility
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An airdrop scheme and impending token launch are likely fueling NFT activity on Blur, putting OpenSea in second place once more
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Blur’s third and final airdrop will be available to users alongside its token launch on Feb 14
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