For journalists, bloggers, and analysts covering Blockd — the privacy platform built around identity protection, metadata minimization, and trustless self-hosted hardware.
Blockd is a privacy platform headquartered in Casper, Wyoming. Founded October 2024 by Joshua Hartsel and Fazri Zubair. The Blockd app launched publicly on iOS TestFlight in May 2026. Blockd Home, a trustless self-hosted privacy device, ships via Crowd Supply in Q4 2026.
Blockd's thesis: encryption alone is not privacy. Identity, metadata, and infrastructure also have to be protected — and the only durable way to do that is architecture, not promise. Blockd builds an end-to-end ecosystem — anonymous messaging today, encrypted email, file storage, password manager, and on-device AI on the near roadmap — all bound by the same trustless architecture and paid for the same way.
Founded: October 2024
HQ: Casper, Wyoming
Founders: Joshua Hartsel, PhD (CEO) and Fazri Zubair (CTO)
Public TestFlight beta: May 2026
Funding model: Premium subscriptions and hardware sales. No ads, no data sales, no analytics partnerships.
Hardware launch: Blockd Home, Q4 2026 via Crowd Supply
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Request Press Kit →PhD chemistry. Previously co-founder of Adelia Therapeutics (acquired by Cybin, NYSE).
Distributed systems, container orchestration, consumer hardware.
Block Enterprises, LLC
5830 E 2nd St Ste 7000 19479
Casper, WY 82609
info@blockd.ai