CryptoSlam Inc.

CryptoSlam Inc.

CryptoSlam Inc. was founded in 2018 by Randy Wasinger in Overland Park, Kansas. The firm emerged as one of the earliest dedicated NFT data aggregators, capturing the rapid expansion of the digital collectibles market. Wasinger, a developer and blockchain enthusiast, built the platform to address the lack of transparent, cross-chain NFT transaction data (public record). Strategy centers on aggregating on-chain NFT data from Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and over a dozen additional blockchains. The platform indexes sales, floor prices, trading volumes, and ownership distribution for thousands of NFT collections. Revenue comes from a freemium web interface and a paid API (the CryptoSlam API) that serves institutional clients such as marketplaces, research firms, and investment funds. The firm does not trade NFTs, operate a marketplace, or manage pooled capital — it is purely an infrastructure and data layer. CryptoSlam maintains a distributed team across its Overland Park headquarters and offices in Hong Kong, Miami, and Santa Monica. In April 2022, the firm was acquired by the publicly traded technology company Block (formerly Square) for an undisclosed sum (per Block's shareholder letter, April 2022). Post-acquisition, CryptoSlam continues to operate as an independent brand within Block's TBD business unit, which focuses on decentralized finance infrastructure. The acquisition provided CryptoSlam with deeper capital resources to expand blockchain coverage and data product offerings. A structural differentiator is CryptoSlam's position as an acqui-hire within a major public company, giving it distribution and engineering support from Block while maintaining its standalone brand and product roadmap. This hybrid independence is unusual among NFT data providers, which typically operate as venture-backed startups or remain independent. The firm also publishes a monthly NFT market report that has become a widely cited industry benchmark.