Hello, we are Morphit.io - Trade STEEM, BLURT and more person to person
Good news: you can now trade STEEM on Morphit.io (and 14 other sites)
Morphit now lets you buy and sell STEEM, the coin of the Steem blockchain, directly with other people. It arrived in Morphit 1.24.0, together with Hive (HIVE) and BitShares (BTS), which brings Morphit to 20 coins.
Why should a Blurt fan care? Steem is where Blurt came from, and lots of us still have an account there. Yet swapping STEEM for BLURT has never been simple: there's no direct market for the pair, so you had to go through one or two exchanges first. Now you can swap them straight with another person, wallet to wallet, with nobody in the middle.
If you've ever thought "I just want to trade a bit of my STEEM for BLURT without all the fuss," this post is for you.
How we used to swap STEEM for BLURT
Let's be fair first: the places below have kept the Steem family trading for years, and good people built and ran them. We're grateful. But not one of them has a STEEM/BLURT market, so every route takes a detour, and every detour means trusting someone else with your coins.
The scenic route: Hive-Engine and Tribaldex. Tribaldex is a friendly front door to Hive-Engine, so they share the same markets. To turn STEEM into BLURT there:
- You send STEEM to a gateway and get a SWAP.STEEM token back. Think of it as a coat-check ticket: it stands for your STEEM, but it isn't STEEM.
- You sell that ticket for SWAP.HIVE, a second ticket standing for HIVE.
- You buy SWAP.BLURT with it, a third ticket standing for BLURT.
- You send the BLURT ticket back through a gateway to get real BLURT.
- The good: it works, it asks for no ID, and the SWAP.STEEM market was still trading today.
- The not-so-good: that's two trades, three tickets and two gateways, and the SWAP.STEEM market is thin: only about $6 changed hands there in the last day. In May 2026 Hive-Engine was also hacked and several tokens were drained. Thankfully the Blurt team reported that no BLURT was stolen, but it showed what "someone else holds it" means.
The long way: two exchanges. STEEM itself trades on big exchanges such as Binance, Poloniex, HTX and MEXC, mostly against USDT, a digital dollar. None of them lists BLURT, though. So you sell your STEEM for USDT on one exchange, send the USDT to Cexius, a small exchange with a BLURT/USDT market, and buy BLURT there. That's two accounts, two deposits and two withdrawals, and the big exchanges usually want to see your ID. Cexius is handy for the BLURT end (Morphit even uses it as one of its sources for BLURT's price), but it doesn't say what company runs it or where it is based.
The ones that are gone. Steem-Engine, Steem's twin of Hive-Engine, shut down a few years ago. ProBit, where BLURT traded against Bitcoin, closed for good in 2026: anything not withdrawn by 1 April 2026 was declared abandoned. Klingex had BLURT/USDT until regulatory demands forced it to delist BLURT along with many other coins. And Steem's own built-in market only trades STEEM against SBD. When someone else holds your coins or your market, their bad day becomes yours.
What Morphit does differently
Morphit isn't an exchange. It's a bulletin board where people post what they want to trade, then chat and trade directly with each other.
- One step, not four. STEEM goes from one person's wallet to the other's, and BLURT goes the other way. No tickets, no second exchange, no detour through Hive.
- Nobody holds your coins. Morphit never touches either coin, so it can't lose them, freeze them, or close its doors and keep them.
- Real coins in your own wallet. You end up with actual STEEM and actual BLURT in your own accounts, ready to use or power up.
- The chat checks the STEEM payment for you. When the buyer records the payment, Morphit looks it up on the Steem blockchain and shows it arriving, with the right amount and the trade's memo. Once it can no longer be undone (about a minute on Steem), 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: STEEM, HIVE, Bitcoin (BTC), Monero (XMR), 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 for getting from STEEM to BLURT.
| Route | Steps | Who holds your coins | What you end up with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morphit | 1: trade with a person | Nobody but you | Real BLURT in your own account |
| Hive-Engine / Tribaldex | 4: gateway in, two trades, gateway out | The gateways and Hive-Engine | Real BLURT, after three tickets |
| Big exchange + Cexius | 2 exchanges, 2 deposits, 2 withdrawals | Two exchanges, one after the other | Real BLURT, usually after showing ID |
| Steem-Engine, ProBit, Klingex | No route any more: shut down, closed, or delisted | Whoever held it when the doors closed | Nothing |
How a STEEM-for-BLURT trade works
Say Grandma has 500 STEEM 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 STEEM. 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 Steem account in the chat, and Morphit adds a short memo just for this trade.
- Send the STEEM. Grandma sends plain STEEM (not Steem Power, and not SBD) 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 Steem blockchain and marks it confirmed about a minute 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 Steem your address is just your account name, like
alice. The same name can belong to someone else on Blurt or Hive, so make sure you're sending STEEM on Steem. - 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 STEEM.
- Each site chooses its coins. A Morphit site's operator can switch STEEM off on their site. If yours has, any other Morphit site still has it.
Morphit speaks Mandarin and Cantonese
Good news for Chinese-speaking Steemians: Morphit fully supports Mandarin (Simplified Chinese) and Cantonese (Traditional Chinese). Every page, from the orderbook and the chat to the help pages, is translated. Open morphit.io in Mandarin or morphit.io in Cantonese, and it's ready in your language. And because Morphit is federated, no single firewall can shut it out. If one site is blocked, the list of Morphit sites offers others, several of them reachable over Tor and I2P, and they all show the same orders and reputations. You can even run your own Morphit node from inside China.
好消息！Morphit 完整支持普通话（简体中文）。从订单簿、消息到帮助页面，每一页都已翻译成中文。点击打开简体中文版 morphit.io，即可直接与他人交易 STEEM 和 BLURT：无需交易所，无需 KYC。而且 Morphit 是联邦式的，任何防火墙都无法把它完全挡住：如果某个站点被屏蔽，Morphit 站点列表里还有其他站点，其中几个可以通过 Tor 和 I2P 访问，所有站点都显示相同的订单和信誉。你甚至可以在中国境内运行自己的 Morphit 节点。
好消息！Morphit 全面支援廣東話（繁體中文）。由訂單簿、訊息到幫助頁面，每一頁都已經翻譯好。撳呢度打開繁體中文版 morphit.io，就可以直接同其他人交易 STEEM 同 BLURT：唔使經交易所，亦唔使 KYC。而且 Morphit 係聯邦式嘅，冇一道防火牆可以完全封鎖佢：如果某個站點俾人封咗，Morphit 站點列表仲有其他站點，當中幾個可以經 Tor 同 I2P 打開，所有站點都顯示同樣嘅訂單同信譽。你甚至可以喺中國境內運行你自己嘅 Morphit 節點。
Come and try it
Steem is where the whole family started: Hive and Blurt both grew out of it, and plenty of us still have an account there. Now STEEM and BLURT can finally meet person to person, with no tickets, no second exchange, and nobody holding your coins in the middle.
Sources
- Morphit FAQ
- SWAP.STEEM market on Tribaldex, checked 10 November 2026
- PSA: BLURT SAFU After Hive-Engine Hack!, @blurtofficial, 19 May 2026
- Steem Engine Tool (Claim Token) Sunset, @justyy
- ProBit Global to cease all services, KuCoin News, 14 January 2026
- Steem market listings, Coinranking
- Cexius markets page (BLURT/USDT)