👋 LA fam! Starting today, you can check in and pay with Blackbird and earn $FLY at 50+ of LA's best restaurants across Santa Monica and Venice. From icons like Gjelina and Felix Trattoria to favorites like RVR, Beethoven Market, and Milo & Olive, LA's most celebrated tables are now part of the Blackbird network. To see all of our current LA spots, open your Blackbird app and set your map to Los Angeles, CA. You'll earn $FLY every time you check in and pay — and you can spend those points at any Blackbird spot across the country, from Venice Beach to Brooklyn. Restaurant lovers unite.

I think @blackbird is gonna solve reservations

Blackbird is the best deal in the game I’m close to $2,000 of free money just from going to restaurants (on top of credit card rewards!) @blackbird

Chef takeovers. The wine dinner that sells out in an hour. We're working with @mesh_ing on an events platform so restaurants can ticket their own nights onchain and take payment through Blackbird Pay.

We had a great week supporting Runtime Agent Week! It was a first look at getting our new dev tools and API's in front of teams to see what they can create around $FLY. Huge thanks to the @bankrbot and @propagandabuild crew, and to the builders who picked up @blackbird API's and built with them.

Mr. Leventhal Goes To Washington

"We are making progress — more than 2,500 restaurants have signed up to use Blackbird and we expect to process close to $100M in payments this year." @benleventhal's fully remarks to @HouseSmallBiz are worth the read.

Come see us tonight at our Agentic Commerse event with @merit_systems We're talking ​agentic commerce, AI texting agents, restaurant reservations, and pre-ordering food. RSVP here: luma.com/axzuqqzs

Here's the top 5 restaurants in LA last week! 🌴

What if we could help restaurants spend less time in the back office and more on hospitality? That was the question we asked when we brought together owners and operators from some of our favorite NYC restaurants for Office Hours with @NotionHQ x @blackbird

Building on Flynet means wallets are already solved. @privy_io provides embedded wallets for every user and merchant, live on Flynet.

Hacking on the Fly! Sam's build: a social network for restaurants. See who's eating where. Earn $FLY doing it.

Nearly every restaurant on Blackbird saw a guest check in last week. 99% of them. Build on a network that already has users. Build on Flynet.

We ran an internal hackathon to see what people would build on Flynet. Noah built a jukebox. What are you gonna build?

Build something awesome.

You walk into a restaurant. Open the Blackbird app to check in and pay. Earn points. That's @Blackbird. Here's why we're excited about how they're improving the restaurant experience for customers and restaurant operators.

It’s time to go from onchain to off-menu. MetaMask Card now earns you up to 7x $FLY at top restaurants through @blackbird. 🦊🐦‍⬛

“Restaurants may struggle with customer acquisition and retention, but, @benleventhal notes, there are few spaces in which people are more passionate about what they’re consuming. ‘People waiting hours in line for pancakes, thousands of people on waiting lists for burger joints, people willing to travel literally around the world for a meal that year is transcendent,’ he says. ‘There aren’t many other settings where people have such an insatiable appetite—forgive the pun—for a product or service.’ Read the full story on @Inc: bit.ly/3Jzbf2b

we recently posted a pretty cool role @blackbird 👀 I'm biased because I've been obsessed with Flynet since long before I joined the team, but I think this is one of the best opportunities out there to bring crypto to life in a tangible, pragmatic way that restaurants and diners actually love working here has been the most fun and fulfilling chapter of my career so far. come join me, @internetalyssa, and the rest of the team as we make Blackbird a household name and build the restaurant economy of the future! jobs.ashbyhq.com/blackbird-l…

@Blackbird launches in LA. A loyalty and payments layer built for independent restaurants, plus this week’s LA venture deals. Read the spotlight below.