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The Blockchain Economy – FT Partners Research
FT PARTNERS FINTECH INDUSTRY RESEARCH
The Blockchain Economy
The Blockchain Economy
Company Profiles
Transaction Profiles
Amber Raises $100 million
in Series B Financing
Bitpanda Raises $263 million
in Series C Financing
VIH merges with Bakkt for
an EV of $2.1 billion
(SPAC)
Galaxy Digital Acquires
BitGo for $1.2 billion
Binance.US Raises $200
million in Financing at a $4.5
billion Valuation
BSGA Merges with Bitdeer at
an Enterprise Value of $4
billion (SPAC)
Blockchain Raises $300 million
in Series C Financing at a
$5.2 billion Valuation
Blockdaemon Raises $255
million in Series C Financing
The Blockchain Economy
Transaction Profiles (cont.)
FPAC Merges with Bullish at
an Enterprise Value of $2.5
billion (SPAC)
GWAC Merges with Cipher
Mining for an Enterprise Value
of $2 billion
Coinbase Completes
its Direct Public
Offering
XPDI Merges with Core
Scientific for an Enterprise
Value of $4.3 billion (SPAC)
FTCV merges with eToro
for an EV of ~$8.0 billion
(SPAC)
Figure Raises $200 million
in Series D Financing
Fireblocks Raises $550
million in Series E
Financing
Ledger Raises $380
million in Financing at a
Valuation of $1.5 billion
NCR Corporation (NYSE:
NCR) Acquiers LibertyX
MoonPay Raises $400
million in Financing at a
Valuation of $3.4 billion
NYDIG Raises $1 billion in
Financing at a Valuation
over $7 billion
OpenSea Raised $300 million in
Series C Financing at a
$13.3 Valuation
Revolut Raises $800 million
in Series E Financing
Robinhood Raises
$2.1 billion in its IPO
Securitize Raises $48
million in Series B
Financing
Stronghold Digital Mining Raises
$127 million In its IPO
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II. Executive Summary
Executive Summary
Executive Summary (cont.)
Executive Summary (cont.)
Executive Summary – Timeline
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2008
2017
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2020
2021
III. Current State of the Market
i. Cryptocurrency
Current State of the Market – Cryptocurrency
Key Stats
Overview
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Current State of the Market – Cryptocurrency
A Growing Share of Total Market Capitalization (2)
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2021
Bitcoin domain
first registered
Altcoins
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Dogecoin
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Overview
Market Cap of Leading Stablecoins, USD Billion (1)
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Overview
Weekly Trade Volume of NFTs by Category (3)
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Central Bank Digital Currency Development Status Map (1)
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Current State of the Market – Cryptocurrency
Market Cap of Selected Mining Companies (2)
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Hut 8 Mining
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Current State of the Market – Cryptocurrency
A Framework for Assessment
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Current State of the Market – Retail Interest
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Months Since First Crypto Investment (1)
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Blockchain.com Wallets (Million) (1)
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Square reported $2.7bn
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2Q21, up 211% year
over year and $1.8bn in
Q321, up 115% year
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Coming
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Apr 2021
Sep 2019
Oct 2020
“Bitcoin changes absolutely
everything. I don’t think there is
anything more important in my
lifetime to work on.”
Jack Dorsey
CEO Square
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“The shift to digital forms of currencies
is inevitable, bringing with it clear
advantages: efficiency, speed and
resilience of the payments system.”
Dan Schulman
CEO Paypal
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Daily Total USD Spent on Completed NFT Sales ($ in mm) (1)
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Selected Well-Funded Companies
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iii. Institutional Adoption
Current State of the Market – Institutional Adoption
Overview
Greyscale Investor Profile 2020 (2)
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Institutional Offerings
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Current State of the Market – Institutional Adoption
OTC trading Desks are Frequently Only Partially “Electronified,”at Best
Pre-funding Requirements
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Notable Providers
ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF
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Selected Examples
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Current State of the Market – Institutional Adoption
Crypto-focused Financing Volume, 2015 – Present
Selected Notable Transactions
Venture & Private Investment in Crypto and Blockchain-focused Companies
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Institutional Investment Trends (1)
Notable Investments
Share of Grayscale Digital Asset Investors That Are Institutions (1)
Grayscale Average Institutional Allocation ($ in mm)
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iv. Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Current State of the Market – DeFi
Overview
Total Value Locked (TVL) by Category and Ethereum DeFi Project (4)
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Current State of the Market – DeFi
Selected Examples
PancakeBunny
rDAI
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Current State of the Market – DeFi
Overview
Selected Use Cases of Smart Contracts
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Creation of a DAO
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Decentralized Application Revenues
DApp Revenue Distribution
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v. Regulation & Government
Adoption
Current State of the Market – Regulation
Overview
The White House’s Executive Order on Digital Assets Reporting Schedule
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IV. Industry Landscape
Industry Landscape
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Industry Landscape
Coin
Category
Price
LTM Low
LTM High
LTM %
MTD %
YTD %
Market Cap
($ in mm)
LTM Low
LTM High
Bitcoin
Currency
$46,820.5
$29,807.35
$67,566.83
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6%
1%
$889,385,706,663.00
Ethereum
Platform
$3,291.6
$1,787.51
$4,812.09
95%
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-11%
$395,441,924,036.00
Tether
Stablecoin
$1.0
$1.00
$1.01
0%
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0%
$81,362,292,668.00
$40,467,698,670 $81,362,292,668
Binance_Coin
Currency
$430.5
$261.82
$675.68
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$71,083,302,849.00
$40,171,507,065 $109,140,493,553
USDC
Stablecoin
$1.0
$1.00
$1.01
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$52,083,027,076.00
$10,555,729,469 $53,528,807,318
Cardano
Platform
$1.2
$0.79
$2.97
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-10%
$39,869,330,421.00
$26,616,389,148 $95,025,501,146
Solana
Platform
$107.1
$18.85
$258.93
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9%
-37%
$34,798,921,341.00
$5,056,832,100
XRP
Currency
$0.9
$0.53
$1.84
56%
9%
3%
$41,256,704,403.00
$24,489,903,049 $83,508,712,026
TerraLUNA
Currency
$94.2
$4.11
$101.59
406%
5%
10%
$33,552,358,835.00
$1,599,297,262
Polkadot
Platform
$22.5
$10.98
$53.88
-30%
19%
-25%
$22,169,044,497.00
$10,729,927,136 $53,212,483,900
Dogecoin
Currency
$0.1
$0.05
$0.68
189%
8%
-15%
$19,201,643,340.00
$6,921,249,082
$88,680,824,303
Avalanche
Platform
$89.8
$9.65
$134.53
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4%
-18%
$24,006,949,475.00
$1,663,936,715
$30,114,621,585
Shiba Inu
Currency
$0.0
$0.000000
$0.0000800
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-6%
-23%
$14,041,471,288.00
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Binance_USD
Stablecoin
$1.0
$1.00
$1.01
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0%
0%
$17,582,026,845.00
$3,479,639,368
$18,549,890,792
Polygon
Platform
$1.7
$0.33
$2.88
383%
4%
-33%
$13,041,615,029.00
$1,697,642,282
$20,411,914,262
Crypto.com
Currency
$0.5
$0.07
$0.90
-10%
11%
99%
$12,256,067,159.00
$1,615,500,497
$22,749,793,366
Wrapped_Bitcoin
DeFi
$46,757.0
$29,707.06
$67,549.23
-16%
6%
1%
$12,826,849,673.00
$5,795,104,612
$15,883,105,422
TerraUSD
Stablecoin
$1.0
$0.95
$1.01
0%
0%
0%
$16,173,236,212.00
$1,579,518,388
$16,220,732,654
Dai
Stablecoin
$1.0
$0.99
$1.01
0%
0%
0%
$9,681,422,761.00
$3,016,432,493
$10,376,305,259
Litecoin
Currency
$129.4
$98.87
$386.45
-30%
15%
-12%
$9,049,850,376.00
$6,900,277,990
$25,796,522,602
Cosmos
Platform
$29.9
$8.97
$44.54
55%
-4%
-8%
$8,560,676,880.00
$1,891,278,062
$11,185,104,250
Chainlink
DeFi
$16.9
$12.71
$52.20
-37%
10%
-14%
$7,868,890,176.00
$5,936,962,311
$21,871,752,692
Near
Platform
$13.2
$1.68
$20.20
136%
12%
-10%
$8,721,182,630.00
$698,376,770
$12,393,044,820
Uniswap
DeFi
$11.4
$8.21
$43.16
-59%
10%
-33%
$7,851,622,337.00
$5,411,254,211
$22,591,622,401
Tron
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$0.1
$0.05
$0.16
15%
11%
-8%
$7,034,548,747.00
$3,622,981,952
$11,798,738,090
$559,244,324,356
$208,735,078,074
$1,274,831,490,851
$569,094,330,697
$77,993,805,663
$36,748,141,331
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Industry Landscape
Exchanges
Tokenization
DeFi
Infrastructure
Borrowing / Lending
CeFi
Tax Solutions
Custody
Institutional Trading
CeFi
Crypto Banking
Miners
Retail Wallets/Execution
NFT Solutions
Payments
DeFi
Crypto ATMs
Asset Management
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Industry Landscape
Exchanges
Tokenization
DeFi
Infrastructure
Borrowing / Lending
CeFi
Tax Solutions
Custody
Institutional Trading
CeFi
Crypto Banking
Miners
Retail Wallets/Execution
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Payments
DeFi
Crypto ATMs
Asset Management
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V. Blockchain 101
Blockchain 101
Cryptocurrency Overview
Selected Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency Asset Management Basics
Return on Selected Cryptocurrencies (2)
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Basics of Blockchain
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Path of a Cryptocurrency Transaction
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Core Principles
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Selected Companies / Protocols by Amount Lost, 2021 (3)
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Case Study: Ledger
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Blockchain in FinTech
Use Cases of Blockchain in FinTech
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i. Private Company
Blockchain-Related
FinTech Equity Financings
Private Company Equity Financings
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Transaction Overview
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Private Company Equity Financings
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Transaction Overview
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Private Company Equity Financings
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Private Company Equity Financings
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Private Company Equity Financings
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Amount
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ii. Blockchain-Related
FinTech M&A
Transactions
M&A Transactions
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M&A Transactions
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M&A Transactions
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VIII. Selected Company Profiles
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Stock Performance (TSX: GLXY), May2020 – February 2022 (1)
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X. Selected Transaction Profiles
Amber Group Raises $100 mm in Series B Financing
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Amber Group Raises $100 mm in Series B Financing
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VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings Merges with Bakkt
Company Overview
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Selected Partners and Integrations
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VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings Merges with Bakkt
Implied Transaction Multiples
Key Metrics
Revenue Model
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VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings Merges with Bakkt
Annual Cohort CAC
Revenue ($ in mm) (1)
Operating Expenses ($ in mm)
Adj. EBITDA ($ in mm)
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Binance.US Raises $200 million in Financing
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Blue Safari Group Acquisition Corp. Merges w/ Bitdeer
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Bitpanda Raises $263 million in Series C Financing
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Galaxy Digital Acquires BitGo for $1.2 billion
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Galaxy Digital Acquires BitGo for $1.2 billion
Company Overview
Solutions Overview
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Key Metrics
20%
of all global BTC
transactions processed
through BitGo
400+
Coins & Tokens
50+
Countries
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Blockchain.com Raises $300 million in Financing
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Blockdaemon Raises $255 mm in Series C Financing
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Far Peak Acquisition Corp. Merges with Bullish
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Far Peak Acquisition Corp. Merges with Bullish
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Far Peak Acquisition Corp. Merges with Bullish
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Good Works Acquisition Corp. Merges w/ Cipher Mining
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Good Works Acquisition Corp. Merges w/ Cipher Mining
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Good Works Acquisition Corp. Merges w/ Cipher Mining
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Good Works Acquisition Corp. Merges w/ Cipher Mining
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
Key DPO Statistics
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
Company Overview
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
Key Industry Trends
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
(1)
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Coinbase Completes Its Direct Public Offering
Implied Transaction Multiples
Revenue Breakout
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XPDI Merges with Core Scientific
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FinTech Acquisition Corp. V Merges with eToro
Transaction Summary
Transaction Commentary
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FinTech Acquisition Corp. V Merges with eToro
Company Overview
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FinTech Acquisition Corp. V Merges with eToro
Registered Users
Average Monthly Registrations
Average Monthly Trades
Average Cost Per Registration
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FinTech Acquisition Corp. V Merges with eToro
Implied Transaction Multiples
Revenue Split by Asset Class
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FinTech Acquisition Corp. V Merges with eToro
How eToro Generates Revenue
Total Revenue ($ in mm)
EBITDA ($ in mm)
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Figure Raises $200 million in Series D Financing
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Fireblocks Raises $550 million in Financing
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Ledger Raises $380 million in Series C Financing
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NCR Acquires LibertyX for ~$73 million in Stock
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Moonpay Raises $400 million in Financing
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NYDIG Raises $1 billion in Financing
CEO & Co-Founder:
Headquarters:
Founded:
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Robert Gutmann
New York, USA
2018
Banking – NYDIG partners with banks to provide solutions for
Bitcoin accounts, cash and Bitcoin rewards programs, Bitcoin
interest payments, asset-backed borrowing and lending
opportunities, and Bitcoin payroll options
FinTech – NYDIG empowers FinTech companies to offer
Bitcoin accounts, rewards programs, interest payments, payroll,
and more
Investment Management – NYDIG provides investment
management firms with asset management services, a fullservice brokerage, flexible financing products, and structured
solutions like risk management and cashflow optimization
Insurance – Insurance companies get exposure to a variety of
accounts, life and annuity products, property and casualty
products, a full-service brokerage, and other solutions like risk
management and cashflow optimization
Corporation – Corporations get access to wide variety of
solutions including asset management services, a full-service
brokerage, loyalty programs, flexible financing products, payroll,
and structured solutions
Nonprofit – NYDIG helps accept gifts in the form of Bitcoin,
facilitates the conversion of Bitcoin to dollars, provides asset
management services and a full-service brokerage, and creates
structured solutions for nonprofit organizations
Mining – NYDIG offers several miner-specific services including
flexible financing, the lowest-cost North American Mining Pool,
custody and liquidation, treasury management, revenue
optimization, carbon offset purchases, and renewable energy
consulting services
OpenSea Raises $300 million in Series C Financing
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Revolut Raises $800 million in Series E Financing
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Revolut Raises $800 million in Series E Financing
Company Overview
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Robinhood Completes its IPO
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Robinhood Completes its IPO
Key IPO Statistics
Use of Proceeds
Robinhood Completes its IPO
Company Overview
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Securitize Raises $48 million in Series B Financing
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Stronghold Digital Mining Completes its IPO
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$17.6
$11.0
$9.8
3.8
2.1
1.6
3.1
1.5
$4.1
5.6
2.6
2019
3.4
2020
LTM June 30, 2021
8.4
2019
2019
$1.3
3.7
$6.6
3.3
7.0
2.8
$18.8
5.6
2.3
4.4
4.8
3.3
4.2
2020
LTM June 30, 2021
2020
LTM June 30, 2021
($0.1)
$0.7
$0.0
2019
2020
LTM June 30, 2021
($1.9)
($1.6)
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XI. Overview of FT Partners
FT Partners – Focused Exclusively on FinTech
Selected Billion Dollar+ Clients
Selected Transactions with Multi-Billion Dollar Valuations
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Company
Amount Raised
Selected Prominent Investors in FT Partners Led Rounds
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Target
Buyer / Investor
International Aspect
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Bloomberg
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M&A Advisor Awards
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LendIt FinTech Industry Awards 2018:
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The FinTech Finance 40:
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The Information’s “Silicon Valley’s Most Popular Dealmakers”
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FT Partners – Focused Exclusively on FinTech
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driving market activity across all sectors of FinTech.
Our research and analysis has been featured on Bloomberg, The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and the Financial Times
and are regularly viewed by CEOs and industry leaders.
FT Partners’ unique insight into FinTech is a direct result of successfully
executing hundreds of transactions combined with over 19 years of
exclusive focus on the FinTech sector.
Each report published by FT Partners contains an in-depth review of a
unique area of the FinTech marketplace and is highly valuable and
topical to CEOs, board members, investors and key stakeholders across
the FinTech landscape.
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