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§ Private Profile · Overland Park, KS, USA
NFT data platform aggregating and tracking sales, volumes, and trends for collectors, investors, and creators across multiple blockchains.
CryptoSlam has raised $9.0M across 1 funding round.
Key people at CryptoSlam.
CryptoSlam was founded in 2018 by Randy Wasinger (Founder and CEO).
CryptoSlam has raised $9.0M in total across 1 funding round.
CryptoSlam is an Overland Park, Kansas-based data aggregation platform that tracks non-fungible token (NFT) sales, trading volumes, and broader market trends across multiple blockchain networks. The company currently operates with a workforce of 32 employees and has raised a total of $12.5 million in venture capital funding to support its ongoing platform development. This financing includes a $9 million seed investment round completed in January 2022 to expand its analytics capabilities for digital collectibles and hire additional engineering staff. The platform monitors secondary market transactions across networks like Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, providing pricing transparency for high-profile NFT collections such as NBA Top Shot and CryptoPunks. CryptoSlam is backed by several prominent institutional and angel investors, including Animoca Brands, Mark Cuban, and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures. The organization was officially founded in 2018 by Randy Wasinger.
Key people at CryptoSlam.
CryptoSlam was founded in 2018 by Randy Wasinger (Founder and CEO).
CryptoSlam has raised $9.0M in total across 1 funding round.
CryptoSlam's investors include Animoca Brands, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Better Food Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, Cadenza Capital Management, Craft Ventures, First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Golden Gate Ventures, Greylock, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Kleiner Perkins.
CryptoSlam has raised $9.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $9.0M Seed in January 2022.
| Date | Company | Round | Lead Investor(s) | Co-Investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2022 | TradePort | $1.0M Pre-Seed | Jake Greenstein | Backend Capital, KCRise Fund |
CryptoSlam is a leading multi-chain NFT data aggregator and analytics platform that tracks sales, volumes, rankings, and transfers for millions of NFTs across 15+ blockchains like Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and others.[1][2][4] Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, it serves NFT traders, collectors, creators, and enthusiasts by providing transparency on rarity, pricing, and market activity, processing over 50 million daily transfers and tracking $50 billion+ in historical sales volume with 100,000+ daily active users.[2][3] The platform solves the core problem of opaque NFT data—such as unknown rarity in collectibles—enabling informed buying, selling, and promotion decisions, with strong growth evidenced by $12.5 million raised from investors like Mark Cuban, Ashton Kutcher, Animoca Brands, and Reid Hoffman, and a team of around 32 employees.[1][2]
CryptoSlam was founded in 2018 by Randy Wasinger, a lifelong baseball card collector based in Overland Park, Kansas, as a side project to track rarity in early Ethereum-based NFT collectibles like the MLB Champions game.[1] Frustrated by not knowing how many duplicates existed of items like a Kansas City Royals Salvador Perez collectible on the blockchain, Wasinger built the platform to aggregate and organize NFT data across chains, starting with Ethereum and expanding as the market exploded.[1] What began as a personal tool quickly gained traction amid the NFT boom, evolving into the industry standard; by 2022, it raised $9-12.5 million in funding led by Animoca Brands, with backers including Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher, turning it into a full-fledged startup with 32 employees.[1][2][5]
CryptoSlam rides the Web3 and NFT data transparency trend, emerging during the 2021-2022 NFT hype and solidifying as the go-to aggregator amid multi-chain fragmentation.[1][2] Its timing capitalized on explosive growth in blockchain collectibles—from sports like NBA Top Shot to art like CryptoPunks—addressing market forces like information asymmetry that hindered adoption.[1][5][7] By enabling cross-chain analysis, it influences the ecosystem as the flagship data provider (e.g., via SlamNet partnership), supporting creators' drops, traders' strategies, and investor insights, while fostering the open metaverse through essential infrastructure.[2][5]
CryptoSlam's dominance in NFT analytics positions it for expansion into broader Web3 data (e.g., SlamNet scaling), especially as blockchain interoperability and real-world asset tokenization grow post-2024 launches.[2][7] Trends like AI-driven rarity tools, fan tokens, and regulated NFT markets will shape its path, potentially boosting user growth beyond 100K daily amid recovering crypto cycles.[2][7] Its influence may evolve from NFT tracker to full Web3 intelligence hub, backed by blue-chip investors, tying back to Wasinger's collector roots by making digital scarcity as trackable as physical cards—poised for sustained leadership.[1][2]
