Blur plans to close its website on November 12, 2026, while keeping its Ethereum NFT marketplace contracts operational. The protocol will remain accessible on-chain, but users will lose its primary interface after monthly NFT trading volume fell by more than 99.5% from its 2023 peak.

The closure will also affect Blend, Blur’s NFT lending service. Starting November 12, Blend will stop matching new loans, and borrowers must repay outstanding balances by the deadline or face default. Blur says it will provide a separate tool for withdrawing assets from Blend, though the release date remains unconfirmed.

Unlike Blast, Blur has not publicly identified operating losses as the reason for its shutdown. Blast’s planned network closure offers another example of an Ethereum ecosystem project winding down while users must meet deadlines to access their assets.

Blur’s Declining Volume Puts Its On-Chain Future to the Test

The fall from Blur’s peak has been substantial. In March 2023, the marketplace controlled more than 70% of Ethereum NFT trading volume, recording approximately $1.43 billion in monthly activity. By March 2026, that figure had dropped below $7 million.

Blur launched in 2022 to serve professional NFT traders, competing with OpenSea through faster transactions, lower fees, and token-based incentives. Its reward programs later drew criticism for encouraging speculative activity and putting pressure on creator royalties.

Despite billions of dollars in trades, Blur has not generated transaction-fee revenue over the past three years, according to Token Terminal data cited in the original report. This reflects the marketplace’s fee-free trading model rather than an absence of trading activity.

BLUR holders will continue to control the protocol’s fee switch and can vote on whether to introduce transaction charges. However, the mechanism’s continued availability does not indicate that any fee change has been approved.

Blur’s next chapter will depend in part on whether independent developers create alternative interfaces that allow users to interact with its contracts and access liquidity. Although the underlying infrastructure will remain operational, on-chain availability alone cannot guarantee the discovery tools, bidding functionality, or trading activity that the official website supported.