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$BLUR AIRDROP with Blur's Founder, Pacman

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, David sits down with Pacman, the Founder of the NFT trading marketplace, Blur. 

Blur recently launched their $BLUR token and Pacman joins us to share the entire airdrop story, the different phases that went into it, and what's next for the fascinating OpenSea competitor. 

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 
3:27 Who is Pacman?
5:55 Why Blur?
7:15 Traders vs. Collectors
10:28 What Blur Built 
15:00 $BLUR Token Story
26:50 Airdrop Phases 
31:50 $BLUR Airdrop Details
35:10 Pacman's Reaction to the Drop
40:47 OpenSea vs. Blur 
43:38 $BLUR Utility
45:13 Season Two
49:20 NFT Royalty Wars 
55:30 Closing & Disclaimers 

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Resources: 

Blur
https://blur.io/ 

Pacman
https://twitter.com/PacmanBlur 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thankless Nation, welcome to this very special edition of Bankless.

0:09.2

We got to talk about the airdrop that's just happened because it has burned all time

0:13.5

high 24 hour of ETH burn inside of 24 hours, it always gets me excited.

0:18.2

But of course we're talking about the blur NFT trading platform which just releases

0:23.0

token into the wild and has gained a ton of excitement, just some quick stats to throw

0:27.7

at you all, one billion dollars in volumes traded through blur, over one billion trades,

0:33.0

almost a hundred thousand active users so far.

0:36.6

And ever since the late stages of 2022 has been gaining in market share over open sea.

0:42.4

And so we're bringing on the blur founder Pac-Man, I don't know if he calls himself a founder,

0:47.2

I'll ask him that when we get on to the show.

0:49.2

To talk about the ethos of blur, where does blur position itself in the world of NFTs,

0:56.2

who is blur optimizing for, is it optimizing for traders, is it optimizing for collectors?

1:01.6

How is blur going to develop and how did this massive airdrop find that just came into

1:06.0

the world today, how is it organized, what does the token do, and all of the other royalty

1:11.8

wars that are also part of the conversation going around in the NFT world.

1:15.6

So all of these conversations and more.

1:17.7

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