{"id":86710,"date":"2023-11-07T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86710"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:17:13","slug":"blur-climbs-a-third-after-opensea-lays-off-half-its-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blur-climbs-a-third-after-opensea-lays-off-half-its-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Blur climbs a third after OpenSea lays off half its staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blur token jumped 33% after news that rival NFT marketplace OpenSea<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplace-opensea-halves-its-staff\"> 50% of its staff<\/a> were laid off.<\/p>\n<p>Over the three weeks preceding the event, the asset rose by 80%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/blur\">CoinGecko<\/a>. At the time of writing, the daily growth rate had cooled to 12.8%.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/261756\/blurs-soaring-token-jumps-even-more-after-rival-opensea-cuts-50-of-staff\"> The Block<\/a>, Blur undermined the former leader&#8217;s position by introducing a &#8216;minimal royalty of 0.5% in combination with attractive<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-airdrop\"> airdrops<\/a> and incentives to participate in trading&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-813-1024x550.png\" alt=\"1-813\" class=\"wp-image-219541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-813-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-813-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-813-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-813.png 1315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: The Block.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As noted, the second-season <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-airdrop\">airdrop<\/a> will begin on November 20, with a distribution of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blur-nft-marketplace-to-airdrop-an-additional-300-million-tokens\">more than 300 million BLUR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blur token jumped 33% after news that rival NFT marketplace OpenSea laid off 50% of its staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1549,83,1213,1265],"class_list":["post-86710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blur","tag-business","tag-nft","tag-opensea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86712,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710\/revisions\/86712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}