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Blockchain

Can a legacy crypto wallet and exchange platform become a full-service crypto finance house across retail, institutional, and DeFi verticals?

Founded2011
HQLondon, UK
FoundersPeter Smith, Nicolas Cary
IndustryFintech / Crypto
The story

Blockchain.com (originally Blockchain.info) began as a Bitcoin block explorer and wallet service, evolving into one of the world's largest retail crypto platforms offering exchange, custody, lending, and institutional services. The evidence available is insufficient to construct a detailed product timeline or pivot narrative with confidence.

Last 12 months
Same company
Blockchain was analysed under more than one name on the same domain, so its stack is split across these dossiers. Each was analysed independently and may name providers the others do not.
Blockchain Com2 layers →Blockchaincom1 layer →Blockchaincom Professional Services1 layer →
The stack
0 layers disclosed in Blockchain’s embedded-finance stack
Accounting gap: none