BroadChain Finance

BroadChain (), also called BroadChain Finance, is a Hong Kong-based news brand covering blockchain and crypto assets. It is operated by 1783 Technology Limited. Its website is broadchain.info. The earlier site was qianba.com.

Company

On 20 August 2019, Newseed reported that BroadChain had received a strategic investment from Digital Finance Group (DFG). The amount was not disclosed. The report said the money would go to the editorial team, the product and offline events, and that the media business had been run as a company since July 2018.

Output

The website lists the interview programmes Zhimian Dalao, Niuxiong Qishilu, Mingri Xing Shili, Zui Qianxian Zhibojian and Web3 Dahanghai. In 2018, one episode of Zhimian Dalao interviewed the bitcoin investor Li Xiaolai. The transcript was published on PANews.

On 25 October 2019, BroadChain and two other companies held the Global Blockchain Fashion Night aboard the cruise ship Blue Daisy Princess on the Huangpu River in Shanghai. The report said the event gave a "most influential investment institution" award to Distributed Capital and Genesis Capital, and a "most valuable exchange" award to Huobi, OKEx, Binance and BiKi. It put the number of blockchain-project representatives present at more than 100.

The current site also publishes crypto prices, bitcoin and ether exchange-traded-fund flows, corporate holdings and on-chain data, and says it does so in 16 languages. The English data page dates that data service to 2024. The Chinese media page dates the related business to 2014 and the media brand to 2018.

Similar name

Broadchain Capital describes itself as a North America-focused crypto venture firm. Its site names Shahar Abrams and Brent Gillett as managing partners.