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Trading volume for NFT marketplaces Blur and Opensea is soaring as NFT traders regain confidence. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The year is starting with a bang for NFT trading, and there\u2019s a new marketplace in town.\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, Blur marketplace<\/a> is clearly overtaking Opensea as the number 1 NFT marketplace in the world.<\/p>\n The new rival for Opensea caters for professional traders on the Ethereum network, and is incentivizing them to actively trade NFTs.<\/p>\n Indeed, Blur\u2019s new rewards scheme is taking off. According to DappRadar<\/a>, the marketplace has seen $502.02M in trade volume in the last seven days \u2013 up 415% from the previous week. By comparison, Opensea is lagging behind on $322.11M, but they\u2019re also up 235% from the previous week. \u00a0<\/p>\n Blur\u2019s success is down to the platform\u2019s rewards and incentives. Indeed, traders are being encouraged to trade like professionals, buying and flipping NFTs the same way they might flip DeFi tokens. For example, the marketplace has already conducted three airdrops to its active traders<\/a>, giving away 360M $BLUR tokens.<\/p>\n Consequently, many traders are spending their $BLUR tokens trading NFTs on the platform. In addition, Blur marketplace rewards traders for using bidding pools that enable bulk trading for NFTs.\u00a0<\/p>\nBlur\u2019s rewards scheme<\/h2>\n