Community contributions to the FTX Foundation have vastly exceeded expectations. Early last week, FTX announced the FTX Foundation. One of the lesser known facts about the team at FTX is their interest in high impact global philanthropy. The only mention of it on their website until recently was a small line on their about page that said “FTX was…

Earlier this week, FTX announced their Foundation. They’ll be contributing 1% of trading fees to charity and a big part of that will be allocated by the users whose trading drives the fund. We’re incredibly excited to join them on that mission, and to kick it off, we’re live with…

Blockfolio has been here for many moons. Back when we started in 2014, we just wanted to build something for people like us — people who saw the potential of bitcoin and the new industry it was unleashing and needed a better way to keep track of it all. As…

Blockfolio is thrilled to announce that we’re joining forces with FTX. As part of that announcement, we’re also excited to share that later this year, we’ll be launching a retail trading experience. With this note I hope to share just a little about how we got here and where we’re…

Yesterday was one of the craziest days in the roughly two decade history of social media. Here’s what happened. In the late afternoon/early evening of July 15th, 2020, a number of prominent crypto Twitter accounts all tweeted the same message at roughly the same time. Before long, it wasn’t constrained…

One of the unique features of bitcoin monetary policy is what is known as the ‘halving.’ Every four years, the size of the reward for successfully mining a block is reduced by 50%. This is the mechanism by which the speed of issuance is reduced over time until the entire…

In the last few months, we’ve shared our philosophy around advertising in crypto which we call “value ads.” In short, we believe that advertising doesn’t have to be a negative experience distraction, but can be another great way to highlight projects contributing value to the crypto space. Some of you…

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year: tax time!

A few weeks ago, we shared our philosophy around marketing in the cryptocurrency industry, which we call “value ads.” In short, we believe that our highest mission is to provide value for both our users and the token teams they’re excited about. This means that we focus all of our…