Blur Bids
Best for independently tracked marketplace
How it rates
- Accounting methodology published
- Deployed across 2 chains
- No audit report linked in the public dataset at this check
Each indicator scores 2, 1 or 0. A pillar is the points earned over the points available; the overall score is the weighted sum. Every source below is public — check any of them yourself.
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Listed with published history.
defillama.com/protocol/blur-bids - Met
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- PartialFee model documented publicly
Application reachable for review; fee levels not captured at this check.
blur.io/ - Met
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A professional NFT trading venue holding $14m, built around collection-wide bidding and pooled lending rather than individual listings.
Our assessment
Blur holds $14m, nearly ten times any other venue in this comparison. It won the professional NFT market by building for traders rather than collectors: collection-wide bidding, portfolio-level tools, and lending against NFTs as collateral.
Bidding on a collection, not an item
Placing a bid on any item in a collection creates the continuous liquidity NFT markets lacked. Sellers can exit instantly at a known price; bidders acquire at their number. This mechanism, more than any incentive programme, is why professional flow concentrated here.
Incentives shaped the market
Blur's token campaigns rewarded bidding volume, which produced enormous activity and a great deal of it driven by farming rather than by demand for the assets. The trading data from that period overstates genuine interest, and anyone reading NFT volumes from those months should discount them heavily.
No audit report at this check
No audit report was retrievable at a public address. For a venue that also runs NFT-collateralised lending — where liquidation of an illiquid asset is the hard problem — published review would matter considerably more than for a simple listing marketplace.
Who it suits
Blur fits active NFT traders who want collection bidding, depth and lending in one place. Collectors buying individual pieces will find the interface built for a different purpose.
How rivals compare
| Service | Score | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NFTX | 9.2 | audited marketplace contracts | Read → |
Frequently asked
Does this rank marketplaces by trading volume?
No. NFT volume figures are widely inflated by wash trading and we do not rank on numbers we cannot verify. The score covers audits, methodology and independently recorded data.
Why is value locked low for large marketplaces?
Most marketplace trading settles without holding assets in contracts, so value locked understates activity. We publish it as the available independent figure, not as a measure of market share.
Are creator royalties assessed?
No. Royalty enforcement is a marketplace policy that changes frequently and is not verifiable from a single public source.