Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur will deprecate its blur.io frontend on November 12, 2026, but the marketplace protocol stays operational on-chain and BLUR holders will continue to control its fee switch. Blend, Blur's peer-to-peer NFT lending platform, will stop matching new loans the same day, so borrowers must repay or let their loans default before then, and Blur will later provide a tool to withdraw assets from Blend. The change comes as the NFT market has shrunk sharply: Statista projects 2026 global NFT revenue of $318.3 million, and CryptoSlam data shows monthly sales fell to $167.2 million in September from $554.8 million a year earlier. The move also follows the announced shutdown of Blast, the Ethereum layer-2 network launched by Blur's team, which said it costs more to run than it earns.
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