Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset exchange that offers market-leading order depth and consistently tight spreads in a regulated environment. Bullish's Twitter Score is 108 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #6,412 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Bullish was founded by Brendan Blumer and is led by Tom Farley as Chief Executive Officer. The exchange is backed by Block.one, as well as investors including Peter Thiel, Alan Howard, Louis Bacon, Christian Angermayer, and Richard Li. Bullish holds regulatory approvals from BaFin, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, while its US operations are regulated by the NYDFS, registered with FinCEN as a Money Services Business, and licensed as a money transmitter in select states.
Bullish became publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BLSH in August 2025, raising approximately $1.1 billion in its IPO. It also offers tokenized BLSH ordinary shares on the Solana blockchain through Equiniti. In May 2026, Bullish announced a definitive agreement to acquire Equiniti from Siris in a $4.2 billion transaction. Bullish acquired CoinDesk from Digital Currency Group in November 2023, adding a major crypto media and data brand to its group. The venture-capital arm of the group, Bullish Capital, focuses on Web3 and digital-economy investments.
Bullish's portfolio includes CoinDesk, CoinDesk Data & Indices, Babylon, ether.fi, Nonco and USD.AI. Bullish has published 1,010 posts and has 110,470 followers as of August 2026 on X. Bullish has been mentioned by 329 accounts, with 725 total mentions.
Who follows Bullish on X?
The accounts that follow Bullish include 370 founders, 85 angel investors, 224 influencers and 15 VCs. Among them are Solana, Toly, Laura Shin, CoinDesk, Andrew Kang and Anthony Pompliano.