The Blur NFT marketplace finally announced its long-awaited airdrop on February 13. However, scammers have been trying to abuse the situation to steal user funds, a blockchain security firm claims.
A scammer’s address has deployed fake BLUR tokens on Coinbase, Justin Sun, and Yuga Labs, posing as the official Blur account. According to PeckShield Alert, the scammers also developed a fake Shibarium after removing all liquidity.
The airdrop, available to merchants, creators, and bidders on the Blur marketplace, was first expected to arrive in January. but blur Announced that the developers are “trying something new” and added two more weeks of a waiting period.
Additionally, Blur, a direct competitor to the largest NFT marketplace OpenSea, made a notable impression among traders after topping different charts including trading volume.
On the other hand, the on-chain intelligence platform Dune fixed that approximately 12.75% of Blur’s trading volume pertains to laundering operations. In a report on February 10, Dune added that only 2.3% of OpenSea trades belong to “wash trades”, while the LooksRare NFT market figure reaches 98%.
Top 3 Buyers of BLUR
According to Lookonchain data, the top five Blur accumulators have purchased around 6.34 million BLUR tokens. The data shows that the average purchase price for these transactions was $0.61.
Additionally, the top buyer purchased 2.04 million tokens worth $1.37 million, with an average purchase price of $0.68. The second largest collector bought 1.15 million BLUR, worth nearly $800,000 at about $0.69 per coin, according to Lookonchain.
The third largest buyer has also collected over 1.12 million BLUR tokens with an average price of $0.50. According to the data provided by Lookonchain, the third buyer paid 561,044 USDC for the coins.
