Blur Plans Website Shutdown as NFT Users Celebrate the Move

Blur, the NFT marketplace that briefly surpassed OpenSea to become the sector’s top venue by trading volume, says it will shut down its website next month. The company also plans to stop onboarding new NFT lending matches on its Blend protocol, while leaving the onchain marketplace itself running. In an announcement posted on X on Monday—its first public update there in more than a year—Blur said the marketplace frontend will go dark on Nov. 12 . Blur’s onchain marketplace component will remain operational, but the user-facing website experience will be discontinued. Key takeaways Blur will end its frontend on Nov.