Blum is a Telegram-native decentralized crypto trading ecosystem co-founded by Gleb Kostarev, Vladimir Masliakov, and Igor Pugachevskiy. Blum's Twitter Score is 64 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #13,061 (top 5%) among 482,999 tracked accounts.
Blum was co-founded in April 2024 and officially launched on July 15, 2024. Vladimir Smerkis, who served as CMO and co-founder, stepped down and ceased involvement in May 2025 amid a criminal investigation in Russia; Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court ordered his pre-trial detention in connection with alleged large-scale fraud under Article 159 of Russia's Criminal Code, though no conviction has been established. The platform describes itself as a decentralized trading app that gives users access to tokens from both centralized and decentralized exchanges, along with simplified derivatives trading, all within a Telegram mini app.
Blum's product suite includes a Telegram mini-app, Memepad, a multichain trading bot supporting TON, Solana, and BNB Chain, spot trading, and the Blum Trading Board. The native $BLUM token officially launched on June 27, 2025, with stated utilities covering trading-fee discounts, staking rewards, and eligibility for future airdrops. Blum announced on March 3, 2025 that it had secured $5 million in pre-seed and seed funding, a round led by gumi Cryptos Capital, with additional backing from Spartan, No Limit Holdings, YZi Labs, The Open Platform, OKX Ventures, Bitscale Capital, and Wintermute.
Blum has published 5,824 posts on the platform and has 4,738,488 followers as of August 2026. Blum has been mentioned by 299 accounts, with 929 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Blum include 269 founders, 62 angel investors, 250 influencers and 8 VCs. Among them are Loomdart, Gmoney, Tay, Mario Nawfal, Matthew Graham and DEGEN NEWS.