Morphit.io now trades HIVE and BLURT person to person

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Good news: you can now trade HIVE on Morphit

Morphit now lets you buy and sell HIVE, the coin of the Hive blockchain, directly with other people. It arrived in Morphit 1.24.0, together with Steem (STEEM) and BitShares (BTS), which brings Morphit to 20 coins.

Why should a Blurt fan care? For years, turning HIVE into BLURT (or back again) meant handing your coins to a middleman first. Now you can swap them straight with another person, wallet to wallet, with no exchange account in between.

If you've ever thought "I just want to trade a bit of my HIVE for BLURT without all the fuss," this post is for you.

How we used to trade BLURT

Let's be fair first: the places below kept BLURT trading alive when there was little else, and good people built and ran them. We're grateful. But each one asks you to trust someone else with your coins, and each pairs BLURT with just one other coin.

Hive-Engine and Tribaldex. Tribaldex is a friendly front door to Hive-Engine, so the two share the same markets.

You send your BLURT to a gateway and get back a token called SWAP.BLURT. Think of it as a coat-check ticket: it stands for your BLURT, but it isn't BLURT. The real coins wait in the gateway's account.
Every market there is priced in SWAP.HIVE, which is another ticket, this time standing for HIVE. So BLURT really has one partner there: Hive.
To get real BLURT back, you send the ticket back through the gateway.
The good: it's quick, it has been around for years, and it asks for no ID.
The not-so-good: two tickets and two gateways stand between you and your real coins. In May 2026 Hive-Engine was hacked and several tokens were drained. Thankfully the Blurt team reported that no BLURT was stolen and BLURT withdrawals still worked, but it was a clear reminder of what "someone else holds it" means.

Cexius and Klingex. Cexius is a small exchange where BLURT trades against USDT, a digital dollar. It's handy if you already hold USDT, and Morphit even uses Cexius as one of its sources for BLURT's price. But you deposit your coins into the exchange's wallet first, BLURT pairs only with USDT, and Cexius doesn't say what company runs it or where it is based. Klingex used to offer BLURT/USDT too, until regulatory demands forced it to delist BLURT along with many other coins. A rule written far away can take a market away overnight.

ProBit. For a long time ProBit was where BLURT traded against Bitcoin. Then ProBit closed for good: spot trading stopped on 28 January 2026, and anything not withdrawn by 1 April 2026 was declared abandoned. BLURT left sitting there was simply gone. That is the hard lesson of every exchange: when they hold your coins, their bad day becomes yours.

What Morphit does differently

Morphit isn't an exchange. It's a decentralised bulletin board service (dBBS) where people post what they want to trade, then chat and trade directly with each other.

Nobody holds your coins. The HIVE goes from one person's wallet to the other's, and the BLURT goes the other way. Morphit never touches either, so it can't lose them, freeze them, or close its doors and keep them.
Real coins, not tickets. You end up with actual HIVE and actual BLURT in your own accounts, ready to use. No SWAP.anything, and no trip back through a gateway.
The chat checks the HIVE payment for you. When the buyer records the payment, Morphit looks it up on the Hive blockchain and shows it arriving, with the right amount and the trade's memo. Once it can no longer be undone (a few seconds on Hive), the chat offers the other side the button to send.
No ID, no email, no phone number. You pick an account name, and that's it.
No single off switch. Several independent Morphit sites read the same Blurt blockchain. If one site goes away, your orders and your reputation are still there on the others.
Far more pairings. On Morphit, BLURT can be traded against 19 other coins: HIVE, Bitcoin (BTC), Monero (XMR), Steem (STEEM), BitShares (BTS), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Dash (DASH), Zcash (ZEC), Pirate Chain (ARRR), Decred (DCR), eCash (ECX), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP, USDT, USDC and DAI. It can also be traded for cash in 154 local currencies, through 38 payment apps and banks (PayPal, Zelle, Pix, SPEI, M-Pesa, Revolut and more), cash in person, cash by mail, precious metals, or a swap for goods and services.

Side by side

Here's the whole picture in one place.

Where	BLURT trades against	Who holds your coins	What you end up with
Morphit	19 coins (HIVE included), cash in 154 currencies, 38 payment apps and banks, metals, barter	Nobody but you	Real BLURT or HIVE in your own account
Hive-Engine / Tribaldex	SWAP.HIVE, a token standing in for HIVE	The gateway and Hive-Engine	SWAP.BLURT, a ticket for BLURT
Klingex	USDT, until regulatory demands forced it to delist BLURT and others	The exchange	Nothing now
Cexius	USDT	The exchange	A balance on the exchange
ProBit	BTC, until it closed for good in 2026	The exchange	Nothing: unclaimed coins were forfeited

How a HIVE-for-BLURT trade works

Say Grandma has 500 HIVE and wants some BLURT. Here's all she does:

Make a free account at morphit.io. She picks a name and a password, then writes her 12-word recovery phrase on paper and keeps it safe.
Find a trade. She opens the orderbook, picks BLURT, and looks for someone who takes HIVE. She checks their stars and completed trades first. Or she posts her own order. Her very first order is free when it's a buy of BLURT worth at least $1.
Chat and agree. She taps the chat button on the order, and the two agree on the amounts.
Get the account to pay. The person selling the BLURT shares their own Hive account in the chat, and Morphit adds a short memo just for this trade.
Send the HIVE. Grandma sends plain HIVE (not HIVE Power, and not HBD) to that account, with the memo on it. Then she records the transaction ID in the chat.
Watch it get checked. The chat finds her payment on the Hive blockchain and marks it confirmed a few seconds later. Only then does the seller get the button to send the BLURT.
Done. The BLURT lands in her Blurt account, and the two leave each other a review.

A few honest notes

We'd rather you hear these from us:

No escrow and no referee. Morphit never holds your money, so it can't undo a trade that goes wrong. Read the other person's reviews, and start with a small trade.
A trade waits for a person. An exchange fills your order instantly from a big pile of waiting orders. On Morphit, someone has to answer your chat. If you need a large swap at 3 a.m. right now, an exchange may be quicker.
Check the coin. On Hive your address is just your account name, like alice. The same name can belong to someone else on Blurt or Steem, so make sure you're sending HIVE on Hive.
Share your own account, never an exchange's. An exchange deposit account needs the exchange's own memo, and the trade's memo takes its place, so the coins could get stuck.
Posting an order costs a little. About $0.125 if you pay in BLURT, or about $0.25 in BTC or XMR. Morphit never takes a cut of the trade itself, and you can't pay the listing fee in HIVE.
Each site chooses its coins. A Morphit site's operator can switch HIVE off on their site. If yours has, any other Morphit site still has it.

Come and try it

Hive and Blurt are cousins: both grew out of Steem, and plenty of us have an account on each. Now the two coins can finally meet person to person, with no tickets, no gateways, and nobody holding your coins in the middle.