Blackbird.xyz

Blackbird (operated by Blackbird Labs, Inc.) is a New York-based loyalty and membership company for restaurants. It provides restaurants with a customizable loyalty programming platform and diners with a consumer app that combines discovery, check-in, payment and rewards. Diners tap an NFC device (the "Blackbird puck") at the host stand or register when they arrive, then pay their check inside the app, earning points denominated in $FLY, the company's rewards currency, where 100 $FLY equals $1 of spending power and points do not expire [0][1][2].

The product includes tiered membership under Blackbird Club (Member at 4x points, Regular at 5x with priority reservations and members' nights, and Friends & Family at 7x with a concierge text line, double points at a chosen "My Spot," and restaurant preview invitations), a Coffee Club offering 10x points at participating cafes, in-app bill splitting, referrals, and direct messaging with restaurants for reservations. Restaurants use the platform to collect guest data, engage repeat customers and run fundraising or membership pre-sales; early implementations used restaurant-specific NFTs and digital punch cards [1][2].

The platform is built on blockchain infrastructure: early coverage described Blackbird as built on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network, and later reporting describes its payment system, Flynet, as leveraging Coinbase's Base transaction protocol. Management frames the blockchain component as a route to customer-profile portability and eventual shared ownership of the network by restaurants and diners, and an investor stated that Blackbird was saving restaurants 3-4% on payment processing fees [2][4].