Our Journey

Our Journey


 
Understanding where we came from helps provide a great foundation to understand where we are today, and where we’re heading.
Blockworks was founded in 2018 by Jason Yanowitz and Michael Ippolito, initially as an events company focused on connecting institutional investors with the emerging blockchain ecosystem.
What began as industry meetups quickly evolved into a comprehensive financial media brand serving sophisticated investors and institutions worldwide.
We've expanded from events to building the industry-leading crypto insights and media platform that includes research, data, analytics, news, podcasts, and premier conferences and events.
Throughout this journey, we've remained committed to our founding principles: delivering exceptional content, fostering genuine community, and maintaining integrity in everything we do.
Today, we're a remote-first team of professionals distributed across multiple countries, united by our mission to bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets.

🟣 Hear From Our Founders

We invite you to listen to a few podcasts from our Founders, Michael Ippolito and Jason Yanowitz. Hear more about their vision, valuable insights, and how Blockworks went from an idea to where we are today.553 words, 3 minutes read time.

Decoding crypto and the markets. Daily, with Byron Gilliam.

recent research

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Research

Maple Finance has successfully navigated significant market challenges through its strategic pivot to secured lending (Maple v2) and the launch of its Syrup product. Syrup has become a primary growth driver, delivering sustainable, outperforming stablecoin yields and rapidly increasing TVL. The upcoming custody-first Bitcoin staking product (istBTC) presents another significant avenue for expansion. Crucially, Maple has achieved operational profitability, a key inflection point that, combined with a fully vested token and active buyback mechanism, strengthens its investment case. While valuation metrics suggest potential undervaluation relative to peers and growth, the primary forward-looking risk identified is the long-term sustainability of its current high-take-rate collateral staking revenue model.

Upcoming Events

Old Billingsgate

Mon - Wed, October 13 - 15, 2025

Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit (DAS) will feature conversations between the builders, allocators, and legislators who will shape the trajectory of the digital asset ecosystem in the US and abroad.

Industry City | Brooklyn, NY

TUES - THURS, JUNE 24 - 26, 2025

Permissionless IV serves as the definitive gathering for crypto’s technical founders, developers, and builders to come together and create the future.If you’re ready to shape the future of crypto, Permissionless IV is where it happens.

Brooklyn, NY

SUN - MON, JUN. 22 - 23, 2025

Blockworks and Cracked Labs are teaming up for the third installment of the Permissionless Hackathon, happening June 22–23, 2025 in Brooklyn, NY. This is a 36-hour IRL builder sprint where developers, designers, and creatives ship real projects solving real problems across […]