Justin Blau is a DJ and electronic dance music producer known professionally as 3LAU. He co-founded Royal.io and founded Bond. Justin Blau's Twitter Score is 621 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking him #176 out of 389,587 accounts tracked. Justin Blau ranks #176 (top 0.1%) out of 389,000+ tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Justin Blau auctioned 33 NFTs tied to his Ultraviolet album in February 2021, bringing in $11.6 million, a record for a primary NFT collection sale at the time; the sale ran on Origin Protocol's decentralized marketplace on Ethereum. He co-founded Royal.io with JD Ross, a co-founder of Opendoor, building a platform where fans could purchase fractional streaming royalty NFTs alongside artists including Nas, The Chainsmokers, and Diplo. Royal.io raised a $16 million seed round led by Paradigm and Founders Fund, and a $55 million Series A led by a16z Crypto; both rounds funded Royal.io as a company. In April 2024, Royal.io announced it was sunsetting its marketplace, citing AI-generated music challenges and a move to onchain infrastructure, with royalty distributions honored via OpenSea and Royal.io through late 2024. A complaint filed in November 2022 by collaborator Luna Aura alleged unjust enrichment and breach of contract tied to the Ultraviolet NFT auction; the parties settled in March 2023.
Justin Blau founded Bond, a creator participation platform on Base L2 where users bond USDC in refundable deposits routed into Morpho Protocol yield-bearing vaults, with creators earning the generated yield while user principal remains withdrawable. In November 2025, he launched 12 unreleased songs onchain via his Bond profile, accessible to anyone who bonded $1 or more in USDC.
Justin Blau's portfolio includes OpenSea, Eco, Bitski, Universe, DeFine, Arpeggi Labs and MakersPlace.
Justin Blau has 233,189 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 9,567 posts since 2010. He has been mentioned by 23 accounts, with 23 total mentions.
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