Company

Block

Type: public
Ticker: XYZ · NYSE
Market value: $45B

Block is public, listed as XYZ on NYSE, in Crypto and digital assets.

What it sells: Cash App, Square, Afterpay, bitcoin.

In the language of this map it serves 3 solutions — Digital-first banks, Buy-now-pay-later and Stablecoins and digital wallets — which between them relieve 3 human frictions.

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Sells

Digital-first banksEarly adulthood
Buy-now-pay-laterEarly adulthood
Stablecoins and digital walletsEarly adulthood

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Manage income, taxes, and bills for the first timeEarly adulthood
Pay, get paid, and send money to familyAcross every phase
No history, so no one will lendEarly adulthood

Trends favouring it

Stablecoins and tokenised assetsCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.
Cash decline, open banking, and the digital dollar questionDirection genuinely disputed. Reasonable people expect opposite outcomes.