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BLUR Underperforms CoinDesk Market Index Ahead of $62M Token Unlock

BLUR Underperforms CoinDesk Market Index Ahead of $62M Token Unlock

CoindeskCoindesk2023/06/12 22:27
By:Sage D. Young

Huge increase in supply could hurt BLUR’s price. The token has also fallen after SEC labeled other tokens as securities.

Ahead of its token unlock this week, – the native token for the non-fungible token (NFT) exchange with the same name – has slid roughly 4% in the past 24 hours to 31 cents, performing worse than .

The token unlock, which will take place on Wednesday, will release almost 196 million tokens, representing nearly 40% of the currently circulating supply, according to data from CoinGecko and Token Unlocks. When this $62 million of tokens are released, owners of BLUR will get greater autonomy over their holdings, gaining the ability to sell or swap.

Releasing that much new supply could push prices down, assuming demand stays constant – as the fundamentals of economics would suggest. But the unlock also comes several days after a wide sell-off this past weekend that . Even though the SEC did not mention BLUR, it dropped more than 20% this past weekend.

About 83% of all BLUR tokens remain locked, according to Token Unlocks.

BLUR’s liquidity stands at roughly in its top five pools on Uniswap V3, the most recent iteration of the largest decentralized exchange by trading volume. On MEXC, a different crypto exchange, a $473,000 sell order can cause the price of BLUR drop 2%, while a $394,000 buy order can cause the BLUR to jump 2%, according to .

Blur representatives didn’t return a request to comment by press time.

Edited by Nick Baker.

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