Blackbird is a restaurant loyalty and rewards app that lets diners check in, earn the cryptocurrency $FLY, and pay via a blockchain-enabled payment system. Blackbird's Twitter Score is 156 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #3,552 (top 1%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Blackbird was founded by Ben Leventhal and launched in April 2023. The app was available in over 150 restaurants as of July 2024, operating across New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Charleston, and Denver. Blackbird introduced Blackbird Pay, a payment system that accepts $FLY, cards, or USDC, with $FLY running on the Base blockchain. The token cannot be redeemed for cash.
Blackbird raised $24M in a fall 2023 round led by a16z, bringing total funding to $35M as of August 2024. The project is also affiliated with Coinbase. Blackbird has accumulated 14,084 followers as of October 2026 and published 563 posts, and has been mentioned by 231 accounts a total of 484 times.
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The accounts that follow Blackbird include 538 founders, 169 angel investors, 195 influencers and 15 VCs, among them jesse.base.eth, Ansem, Kyle Samani, Base, Robert Leshner and Luca Netz.