Blockchain’s potential is no longer the startup industry’s best kept secret. Currently making impressive inroads on Wall Street, blockchain technology is being embraced by some of the most prominent titans of the tech industry.
Companies creating and hosting blockchain technologies like blockchain applications or cryptocurrency exchanges are showing themselves in the stock market, and are proving to be profitable assets for investors.
Publicly Traded Blockchain Companies to Know
- NVIDIA (NVDA)
- Coinbase (COIN)
- Block, Inc. (SQ)
- Riot Blockchain (RIOT)
- PayPal (PYPL)
- IBM (IBM)
Here are just a few examples of publicly traded companies who utilize blockchain technology and are listed on the NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange.
11 Publicly Traded Blockchain Companies to Know
Cash App
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Location:San Francisco, California
Stock symbol:SQ
Cash App was the first publicly traded company to buy and sell Bitcoin and is the first such company to integrate the Lightning Network layer 2 payment protocol into its operations. By enabling Lightning transactions, Cash App is able offer instant and nearly fee-free transfers to its users, along with the trusted anonymity and security of the Cash App platform.
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NVIDIA
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Location: Fully Remote
Stock symbol: NVDA
Known as a prominent figure in the creation of intensive hardware and varied tech solutions, NVIDIA also specializes in creating crypto chip mining processors (CMPs) for computers. The company’s CMP technology allows for a larger number of GPUs to be controlled by a single CPU, making for faster and more efficient cryptocurrency mining (especially on Bitcoin).
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Stock symbol: COIN
Coinbase hosts one of the most used crypto exchange platforms, where over 100 million users can buy, sell and store assets from cryptocurrency to NFTs. The application also offers access to crypto wallets, a designated Coinbase debit card and a crypto rewards system. Going public in 2021, Coinbase has already shown itself as a steady contender in current cryptocurrency stocks.
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PayPal
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Location: San Jose, California
Stock symbol: PYPL
The PayPal platform allows users and businesses to quickly send and receive money from several countries across the world. For crypto users, you can also use the application to buy, store and exchange Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin currencies. PayPal boasts over 400 million global users, making it a popular money transfer app option.
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AMD
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Location: Santa Clara, California
Stock symbol: AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, creates computer hardware and core technologies for the support of data centers, high-performance computing and gaming. The company’s Blockchain Compute systems combine GPU and CPU hardware to power secured and optimized blockchain transactions. AMD has also partnered with other blockchain companies to create blockchain gaming and rendering platforms.
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Location: Armonk, New York
Stock symbol: IBM
Along with offering services to help businesses integrate blockchain into their processes, IBM hosts its own blockchain platform and open-source framework known as Hyperledger Fabric. IBM’s blockchain solutions have helped overcome hurdles in supply chain, credential security and digital asset management, and has over 120,000 organizations contributing to the Hyperledger Fabric project.
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Microsoft
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Location: Redmond, Washington
Stock symbol: MSFT
Partnering with ConsenSys, Microsoft’s Azure platform offers the Quorum Blockchain Service, which is helping to establish blockchain in companies across a variety of sectors. The fully-managed ledger services allows for the creation and scaling of enterprise blockchain applications and smart contracts in the cloud, used by companies like Bosch and Prescryptive Health.
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Intel Corporation
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Location: Santa Clara, California
Stock symbol: INTC
Developed in collaboration with the Linux Foundation, IBM and SAP, Intel’s Hyperledger Sawtooth network is an enterprise-level blockchain platform for creating blockchain applications and smart contracts. Its platform offers data protection from outside parties, open-sourced information gathering and a virtually unhackable ledger. Intel also distributes the Intel Blockscale ASIC, able to operate at a 580 gigahashes per second rate for proof-of-work networks.
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Block
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Location: San Francisco, California
Stock symbol: SQ
Block is the parent company of payment platforms and cryptocurrency-related services Square, Cash App, Spiral, TBD and Afterpay. At its core, Block has focused its technologies on making mobile payments more accessible for users and smaller businesses, including crypto banking support. Today, the company has also branched out to host platforms in media and entertainment like Weebly and Tidal.
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Riot Blockchain
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Location: Castle Rock, Colorado
Stock symbol: RIOT
Housing North America’s largest Bitcoin mining facility, crypto mining company Riot Blockchain strives to be “one of the most relevant and significant companies supporting the Bitcoin network.” Utilizing over 116,000 Antminer application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), Riot Blockchain hosts around 200 MW-worth of Bitcoin mining clients. By 2023, the company is forecasting to speed up its total self-mining hash rate capacity to about 12.6 exahashes per second.
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Marathon Digital Holdings
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Stock symbol: MARA
Operating in a data center with over 2,000 ASIC Bitcoin miners, Marathon Digital Holdings deals entirely with crypto mining and the generation of digital assets. The company’s ultimate goal in mining is to support the development and security of the Bitcoin ecosystem and mitigate corporate expenses, making the currency more accessible for investors.
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