{"id":51526,"date":"2024-01-16T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/?p=51526"},"modified":"2024-04-20T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T08:21:22","slug":"blur-jumps-15-following-token-unlock-continuing-historical-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/blur-jumps-15-following-token-unlock-continuing-historical-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUR Jumps 15% Following Token Unlock, Continuing Historical Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The price of BLUR, the native token of the<a href=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/what-are-nfts-beginners-guide\/\"> non-fungible token<\/a> (NFT) marketplace Blur, jumped 15% after a significant amount of the token&#8217;s supply was unlocked hours before press time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Token unlock involves releasing a certain amount of assets previously locked or restricted from circulation in the market. Token unlocking often leads to increased trading volume and price volatility for the asset as investors will now have the ability to buy or sell it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$32.55M Worth of BLUR Unlocked\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain, 49.46 million BLUR, equivalent to $32.55 million, was unlocked on January 16. On-chain data showed that the tokens were initially transferred from a multi-signature address and subsequently into Coinbase Prime wallet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">49.46M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BLUR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BLUR<\/a>($32.55M) was unlocked 2 hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since Jun 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BLUR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BLUR<\/a> has been unlocked once a month and 8 times in total, unlocking 534.74M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BLUR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BLUR<\/a>($355.39M).<\/p>\n<p>In 5 of the previous 7 unlocks the price will increase after unlocking.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EnxgaEAqeI\">https:\/\/t.co\/EnxgaEAqeI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jbD8EEL1u7\">pic.twitter.com\/jbD8EEL1u7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1747108014652535008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 49.46 million BLUR unlocked represents 3.84% of the token&#8217;s current circulating supply of $1.2 billion. The token has a maximum supply of $3 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since BLUR&#8217;s unlocking event began on June 15, 2023, 534.74 million tokens ($355.39 million) have been released into circulation. The latest unlock marks the eighth such event since the process began.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reinforcing Historical Trend<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, BLUR has a history of positive price performance following each unlocking event. In five of the seven previous unlocks, the price of BLUR has increased, suggesting a pattern of investor anticipation and market enthusiasm surrounding these scheduled events. Today&#8217;s 15% jump further reinforces this historical trend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, the trading volume of BLUR has also increased by 124% on the day to $237.8 million, signaling a rise in market activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At press time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/coins\/blur\/\">price<\/a> of BLUR was $0.6977, representing a 20% surge in the last 24 hours, 43.93% in the past seven days, and 53% over the past 30 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, BLUR&#8217;s recent rally comes after a period of struggle. In December 2023, there were reports of multiple whales\/institutions<a href=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/multiple-whales-dump-8-4m-worth-of-blur\/\"> offloading<\/a> their BLUR tokens amid a price decline.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of BLUR, the native token of the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Blur, jumped 15% after a significant amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":41382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1816],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1783],"class_list":["post-51526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-news","category-nft-news"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":1783,"user_id":32,"is_guest":0,"slug":"lucky","display_name":"Lucky Ebosele","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a0b6a5576a76b8410c1a966b7ebc948?s=96&r=g","first_name":"Lucky","twitter":"","instagram":"","linkedin":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Ebosele","facebook":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307342,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526\/revisions\/307342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51526"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=51526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}