Blurmarketplace bidding: checks before the website closes
Blur uses pooled ETH for NFT offers on Ethereum. Before leaving a bid open, check its collection and price separately from the funds held in the bid pool. Blur announced that its trading website would retire on November 12, 2026, while its marketplace protocol would remain operational on-chain.
Does funding the bid pool buy an NFT?
Deposited bidding ETH sits in Blur’s bid-pool contract. The Blur Foundation’s Contracts document identifies the Bid Pool contract separately from the marketplace exchange and Blend lending contracts. Funds in that pool are distinct from ETH held directly in your wallet.
A deposit supplies funds for bidding. The offer states the purchase terms, and a completed trade exchanges the NFT and payment. A pool balance alone doesn’t show which offers remain open or whether a particular purchase has settled. Cancelling an offer and withdrawing deposited ETH also concern different records: the order’s status and the location of the funds.
BLUR has a separate documented role in governance, including control over the marketplace fee switch. Holding BLUR and funding an ETH bid aren’t interchangeable.
How the website retirement affects open bids
In its October 12, 2026 announcement , Blur scheduled the website’s retirement for November 12, 2026 and said BLUR would retain control of the on-chain marketplace’s fee switch. The notice didn’t specify an exact cutoff time or say how open bids and bid-pool balances would be handled when the website retires. Continued protocol operation doesn’t establish that the existing bidding interface will remain available or that offers will be cancelled automatically.
Blend has a separate deadline. Blur said its lending product would stop matching new loans on November 12, 2026, with borrowers having until then to repay or allow their loans to default. It promised a later withdrawal tool for Blend assets without giving a release date. That tool’s stated scope was Blend withdrawals, so it isn’t a confirmed replacement interface for marketplace bids or bid-pool ETH.
Marketplace fees and historical bidding rewards
Blur advertises a 0% marketplace fee. Network gas for Ethereum transactions and any applicable creator royalty are separate from that advertised charge. Read the trade’s terms to distinguish charges borne by the bidder from deductions from the seller’s proceeds; don’t automatically add every fee component to the bid price.
Bidding rewards depend on a campaign’s dates and terms. Blur’s June 26, 2024 post marked Season 3 complete, opened a 30-day BLAST claim window, and directed new point earning to Season 4. That historical notice doesn’t establish a token reward for a new bid before the website retirement.
Decision checklist for leaving a bid open
- Confirm the collection and ETH price attached to each open offer. If either is unclear, resolve what the bid covers before leaving it open.
- Check the bid-pool balance separately from wallet ETH. Confirm a withdrawal through its completed transaction and the receiving wallet’s balance; an offer’s cancelled status alone doesn’t establish that funds have returned.
- Identify the marketplace charge, any applicable royalty, and transaction gas separately. Check who bears each amount before calculating the bid’s total outlay.
- If your plan depends on the trading website remaining available on or after November 12, 2026, revise that dependency. Blur said the on-chain marketplace would continue, but it didn’t promise continued access through the retiring website.
