49.82 Million BLUR Unlocked: Is the Rise to $0.50 Possible?

The price of Blur (BLUR) jumped to 9.57% in the last 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.47 in the process. This price increase occurred after a $23.26 million token unlock by the NFT marketplace and aggregator project. Per Etherscan, the Blur team transferred 49.82 million tokens out of its multi-sig wallet.

BLUR Price Shows Strength Despite Unlock

The BLUR transaction happened on December 16, and the team sent the tokens to Coinbase Prime. According to Colin Wu of Wu Blockchain, this makes the total number of BLUR tokens unlocked and sent to Coinbase Prime 485 million, currently worth $226M.

Token unlocks result in an increase in circulating supply, which is generally thought to place downward pressure on price. However, it appears that demand has managed to absorb BLUR’s recent token unlock, as can be seen on the BLUR/USD 4-hour chart. Based on the technical outlook, bulls had formed support for the token at $0.42 in the early hours of December 18. This support was also crucial to beating the initial resistance at $0.46.

Bulls Control the Trend

At the time of writing, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) was 59.10. Previously, the RSI reading had hit 33.54, indicating that BLUR was close to being oversold. However, the rise in the indicator implies that bullish momentum was the order of the moment.

Should buying pressure increase, the RSI may inch toward 65.00 while BLUR could surpass $0.50. At the same time, this might only be the case if buyers continue to keep bears out of the way.

Like the RSI, the On Balance Volume (OBV) also increased. However, the OBV at -31.72 million is a sign that BLUR is not entirely on strong footing. But if the negative volume balance shown by the indicator continues to trend up, then BLUR’s bullish structure may not be neutralized.

BLUR/USD 4-Hour Chart (Source: TradingView)

So, a rise to $0.50 could be plausible. If not, BLUR might stall at $0.47 or retrace. As it stands, a move in the upward direction is likely to happen unless other altcoins also halt the bullish spike experienced in the last 24 hours.

In a related development, the Blur NFT marketplace has fallen to second in the marketplace standing to OKX. For a while, Blur had led the likes of OpenSea and Magic Eden, and this was also vital to the rise in the value of its native token. But like the unlock, the marketplace’s drop in ranking has not halted BLUR’s bullish momentum.