The Good Tech Companies - Ex-BitPay, NerdWallet Leaders Drive Beluga’s 85K-User Crypto Education Push

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ex-bitpay-nerdwallet-leaders-drive-belugas-85k-user-crypto-education-push. Beluga offers free crypto guides, token insights, and real-time trading strategies. Partnered with Gemini, Aptos, and Litecoin—50K+ subscribers. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #beluga, #beluga-news, #beluga-announcement, #blockchain, #dlt, #cryptocurrency, #web3, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Beluga offers free crypto guides, token insights, and real-time trading strategies. Partnered with Gemini, Aptos, and Litecoin—50K+ subscribers.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Xbit Pay, NerdWallet leaders drive Beluga's 85k user crypto education push. By Ashan Pandey, Beluga, a crypto education platform started in 2024, has gotten over 50,000 people to subscribe to its newsletter and has given out 100,000 starter packs since coming out of the beta phase. The platform that offers free guides on how to adopt blockchain has partnered with Gemini, Aptos, Litecoin, Eclipse Labs, and Hemi Labs to expand its resource library. Beluga's tools include the Beluga Top 50, which is a weekly index of vetted token launches, and a public trading wallet that demonstrates real-time transactions.

It has starter packs that provide step-by-step instructions on how to set up a wallet, stake and use decentralized applications. The company reports 85,000 followers on X. The team includes Sunny Singh, XBitPay, Dan Yu, XNerdWallet, Albert Li, the founder of MyFitnessPal, and Vivek Patel, ex-Yelp CPO. Beluga's infrastructure is compatible with EVM chains and Solana and will extend support to TUN and Bitcoin-based protocols. Adoption and partnerships More than 50 projects are using Beluga's tools, including Aptos-based decentralized applications and Litecoin's NFT projects. Gemini has integrated Beluga's guides into its onboarding flow,

and Eclipse Labsys is the platform to help users learn about its roll-up ecosystem. As a free service, Beluga works by partnerships not subscriptions or ads. This model eyes under a lot of analysis as regulators step up their demands on the crypto advertising. The SEC's recent actions against unregistered token platforms are a risk sign for educational content associated with particular assets. The recent rise in crypto prices has once again made people concerned with educational resources, as Bitcoin is trading at $60,000 and political meme coins like Dollar Trump are on the rise. Beluga's growth is in line with broader efforts to drive usage beyond pure speculation.

Beluga's testnet phase has reached 345,000 accounts and the mainnet launch is scheduled for Q4 2024. The team is focusing on integrations with political memecoins like Dollar Trump and Dow Governance Tools. Don't forget to like and share the story. Tip Vested Interest Disclosure. This author is an independent contributor publishing via our business blogging program. Hacker Noon has reviewed the report for quality, but the claims herein belong to the author. Hashtag D-Y-O-R. Thank you for listening to this Hacker Noon story, read by Artificial Intelligence. Visit HackerNoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.