Blocknom, a crypto-earning platform in Y Combinator’s present batch, has aspirations to grow to be the “Coinbase Earn for Southeast Asia.” At this time the corporate introduced it has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator, Quantity Capital and Magic Fund.
Blocknom’s co-founders, Fransiskus Raymond and Ghuniyu Fattah Rozaq say the app offers customers a safe approach (it companions with crypto infrastructure firm Fireblocks) to get steady, high-yield curiosity of as much as 13% each year. It additionally permits customers to withdraw their cash at any time with out charges.
The 2 founders met whereas engaged on an open supply challenge in 2020, across the begin of the pandemic. “We seen throughout COVID, the crypto market is booming in Indonesia, whereas we have been each already crypto buyers,” Raymond advised TechCrunch.
“We talked to customers and located that not everybody can do nicely in buying and selling.” They discovered that DeFi is a steady and high-yield technique to achieve by means of crypto, however there have been no competing merchandise in Indonesia, in order that they determined to construct one themselves. Its DeFi companions embody Compound, AAVE, Terra and Cake.
After signing up for Blocknom, customers with a checking account can deposit Stablecoins, which the founders selected as a result of it’s the most comparable to traditional financial institution deposits and subsequently accessible to new crypto customers.
Raymond stated Blocknom differentiates from funding apps by encouraging folks to avoid wasting and maintain their Stablecoin for the long-term.