Bloq
Chicago, US Β· Founded 2020 Β· 4 employees on LinkedIn Β· 3 known investors
Bloq builds blockchain infrastructure and applications for Web3, covering areas such as decentralized finance (DeFi), crypto mining, Web3 tools, and the metaverse. It works with enterprise and emerging organizations.
Also known as Bloq, Inc. Β· BloqLabs
Founders & leadership
Bloq was founded in 2020 by Jeff Garzik and Matthew Roszak.
Investors Β· 3
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeries BMay 2025Source β
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Bloq is a Chicago-headquartered software company that builds infrastructure and applications for Web3, with work spanning decentralized finance, staking, cryptocurrency mining, NFTs and the metaverse. It was founded in 2016 by Jeff Garzik (CEO) and Matthew Roszak (Chairman), and also lists Atlanta as a headquarters location alongside Chicago.
The company operates a portfolio of products and spinoffs organized around three areas. In DeFi it offers Vesper, an audited yield platform, and Metronome, which applies synthetic assets; Pure Finance packages internally developed DeFi developer tools. In Web3 tooling, BloqCloud provides managed infrastructure for staking, nodes and APIs. In mining, Titan supplies private mining pools and mining management software for enterprise miners, while Lumerin operates a decentralized marketplace for trading Bitcoin hashpower. In the metaverse and NFT category, Atmos Labs develops metaverse-native sports and Capsule NFT provides an open protocol for NFT composability. Bloq also maintains a public GitHub organization with 43 repositories covering trading and matching engines, a memory database, a multi-blockchain smart contract oracle (Ora), NFT registry and account wrapper contracts, Merkle-based payout aggregation and on-chain price oracles.
Founding story
Bloq was founded in 2016 by Jeff Garzik, who came from open source Bitcoin development, and Matthew Roszak, a blockchain investor and founding partner of the private investment firm Tally Capital. In its first year the company delivered Fidelity's first Bitcoin wallet.
Business model
Bloq builds and operates infrastructure services, developer tools and applications for enterprise and blockchain-native organizations, and incubates products through BloqLabs that are spun out as standalone ventures such as Titan, Vesper Finance, Metronome, Lumerin and Atmos Labs.
Traction
Bloq reports 40 team members, or 120 including spinoffs. Its work includes Fidelity's first Bitcoin wallet, Project Vulcan with PwC, a Universal Node project with Citibank, an Algorand network grant, and Avalanche node support. Atmos Labs and CapsuleNFT sold out three NFT collections in approximately one month in 2022. The Lumerin hashpower marketplace is live, and Vesper and Lumerin published performance and market reports through 2025 and 2026.
Latest developments
Bloq's site highlights the live Lumerin Hashpower Marketplace and publishes ongoing mining and DeFi research, including Vesper performance reports for October and November 2025 and Lumerin Bitcoin mining analyses dated May 2026.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Described as a blockchain technology company and creator of Metronome, with reported clients and ecosystem relationships including Discover, Avalanche, Fidelity, Citi, Polygon and Algorand.
Technology
Bloq's technology covers managed blockchain node and API infrastructure (BloqCloud), staking support, node operation for networks including Algorand and Avalanche, DeFi yield and synthetic asset protocols (Vesper, Metronome Synth), mining pool and white-label mining management software (Titan), a tokenized hashpower marketplace (Lumerin), and NFT composability tooling (Capsule NFT). Its open source repositories include a C++ trading and matching engine, a Rust memory database, the Ora multi-blockchain smart contract compute oracle and validation engine, Solidity on-chain price oracles, an NFT registry and account wrapper, and Merkle-based payout aggregation contracts.
Go-to-market
Enterprises, financial institutions, blockchain projects and digital asset companies, plus enterprise miners and Web3 developers.
Geography
Headquarters in Chicago and Atlanta, United States.
History
Founded in 2016, Bloq delivered Fidelity's first Bitcoin wallet that year. In 2017 it created BloqLabs, the incubator behind spinoffs including Vesper Finance, Metronome and Titan, and partnered with PwC on Project Vulcan, an all-in-one digital asset platform. In 2018 it spun out Titan as a mining management software and white-label mining tools provider, worked with Citibank on a Universal Node for digital assets, and launched Metronome. In 2019 it open-sourced key software components that seeded CapsuleNFT and launched BloqCloud managed node and API services. In 2020 it earned a grant to support the Algorand network and began supporting Avalanche nodes. In 2021 it launched Vesper Finance, published internal tools under Pure Finance, launched the Lumerin hashpower tokenization project, and founded Atmos Labs. In 2022 Atmos Labs and CapsuleNFT debuted publicly at NFT.NYC, CapsuleNFT introduced the Dollar Store Kids collection embedding NFT art and USDC in a single NFT, and the two units sold out three NFT collections in about a month. In 2023 Metronome Synth launched.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Competitors Β· 5
by search overlap
Companies competing with Bloq for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline Β· 16
launches, deals, and filingsBloq's website announces that the Lumerin marketplace for trading Bitcoin mining hashpower is live.
Metronome Synth extended DeFi yield strategies using synthetic assets.
CapsuleNFT also introduced the Dollar Store Kids collection, embedding NFT art and USDC as a single NFT; the two units sold out three NFT collections in roughly one month.
Bloq earned a grant to support the Algorand network, launching nodes and API, and began supporting Avalanche nodes the same year.
Bloq spun out Titan as a provider of mining management software, services and white-label mining tools.
Metronome, described as Bloq's first DeFi project and a next-generation cryptocurrency.
BloqLabs was created to incubate Bloq spinoffs including Vesper Finance, Metronome and Titan.
Bloq was founded in 2016 in Chicago by Jeff Garzik (CEO) and Matthew Roszak (Chairman).
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Bloq do?
- Bloq builds Web3 infrastructure and applications spanning DeFi, staking, Bitcoin mining, NFTs and the metaverse.
- Who founded Bloq?
- Bloq was founded by Jeff Garzik, Matthew Roszak in 2020.
- Who are Bloq's investors?
- Bloq's investors include Digital Currency Group, The Hive, SixThirty Ventures.
- Where is Bloq headquartered?
- Bloq is headquartered in Chicago, US.