BLUR jumps 12% as Blur founder raises $20m for new L2 network

Tieshun Roquerre, the founder of NFT marketplace Blur (also known as “Pacman”), is launching a new layer-2 network where users can reduce transaction costs for digital collectibles. In a thread posted to X on Nov. 21, Roquerre addressed high network fees, saying “hundreds of millions have been spent on gas trading NFTs.” Tieshun Roquerre raised $40 million to contribute to the Blur ecosystem. In a bid to solve all these issues “at once,” the Blur founder decided to launch Blast, a new layer-2 network with native yield for DApps, where users could avoid asset depreciation as well as reduce transaction costs for non-fungible tokens.

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