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I’m excited to announce that @Blockchain has raised a $120M strategic growth round led by leading macro investors.
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2/ What excites me most about this moment is the immense optimism about cryptocurrency from serious, institutional investors. In fact, the current bull run is dominated by stories of Fortune 500 companies, investment funds, and institutions driving net inflows into crypto.
3/ When we set out to raise our Series A in late 2014, there were only a handful of venture-backed crypto companies. A bitcoin was worth hundreds of dollars and we were pleased to power just over 2 million wallets in the wild.
4/ Six years later, we’ve come a long way. Bitcoin just crossed the monumental price target of $50k. Over 65M Wallets have been created in 200+ countries. And 28% of all Bitcoin transactions since 2012 have occurred via @blockchain, representing billions in transaction volume.
5/ Our Institutional Markets business is growing exponentially, and while the Wallet remains the core of our business, our Institutional business is now significant enough to cover the entire operating cost of the business while also delivering additional operating profits.
6/ Fundraising as news is a bit strange to me. To be clear, I recognize all of the hard work the team has put in to accelerate the growth of http://Blockchain.com and crypto writ large — but what I’m most excited about hasn’t happened yet.
7/ We’re thankful to the millions of http://Blockchain.com users who have grown with us over the years. Since our humble beginnings as http://blockchain.info , we’ve always been customer-first.
8/ Throughout each of the crypto cycles, our customer numbers have continued to increase, our product lines have expanded, and the industry has grown up in a big way.
9/ Paradigm shifts like crypto can feel to the world as though they happened overnight -- but for those of us working day in and day out to build technology and innovation in crypto, this has been a long time coming.
10/ I couldn’t be more optimistic about the future, but there’s so much more to do. It’s time to bring billions of people into crypto. It’s time to build a financial system for the internet.
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