The Pomp Podcast
Ed Moncada, Founder & CEO of Blockfolio: The Future of Crypto Governance
- Ed Moncada's background as a professional poker player from 2001–2010, including winning a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2005, and how the 2006 UIGEA law prompted his pivot to crypto.
- Discovery of Bitcoin in early 2013 through online poker, triggered by experiencing 48-hour settlement via Coinbase versus weeks-long delays through traditional gambling payment channels.
- Role in Dash (formerly DarkCoin) from 2014–2015: acquiring the trademark through purchasing a dead coin (DashCoin), joining the founding board of the Dash Foundation, and pioneering decentralized governance through treasury voting.
- Creation and growth of Blockfolio as a portfolio tracking app solving the multi-exchange, multi-token management problem; user base grew from 8,000 to 2.2 million monthly active users in 2017.
- Blockfolio Signal platform launched in 2018, enabling 350+ token teams to broadcast announcements directly to token holders; now accounts for approximately 20–25% of daily active users.
- Privacy-first product design: no personal identifiable information collected, no custody or exchange services, turning away $20M+ in ICO ad revenue and successfully defending two federal subpoenas by design.