23 Blockchain App Business Ideas You Can Start Today [2023]

Updated: July 23rd, 2023

Interested in starting a blockchain app business in 2023?

We put together 23 of the best blockchain app businesses you can start in today.

For each business idea, we’ll show you real-world examples of other blockchain app businesses to help you see what it really takes.

Here's the full list:

1. Start a cross-border payments app business

How much you can make: $1,500,000/month

Case Study
How We Launched A $1.5MM/Month Digital Wallet and Financial Services Company
iCard is a leading e-money institution that offers a unique and 100% digital bank account alternative, with their app and services supporting the daily payments of people in over 30 European countries, and since launch in late 2017, the iCard app has seen around 500,000 downloads.
$1.5M Monthly Revenue
15
10.1K

2. Start a real-time IOT OS app business

3. Create an anti-money laundering tracking app

4. Start a cybersecurity app business

How much you can make: $91,000/month

Case Study
How I Started A $69K/Month Software Agency After A Failed Product Launch
A software agency started by a non-technical founder helps diverse clients with their minimum lovable product, boasting a revenue of over $700,000 this year with a 20% profit margin and a team of 8.
$91K Monthly Revenue
18
22.8K

5. Start a stock market app business

Mobile applications have become synonymous with comfort and convenience.

In stock trading, apps help traders the ability to buy and sell shares of stocks and ETFs without paying commissions. Stock market apps also allow users to research investments, track their portfolios, and buy or sell stocks quickly.

The increased adoption of share market apps has created a business opportunity for programmers and platform developers.

Consider creating trading apps if you want an opportunity to generate money from the stock trading industry. Your customers will be stock brokers and traders looking to create a convenient and easy-to-use platform for their customers.

To create stock trading applications, you will need mobile development skills, backend development, and frontend development skills.

6. Start a voting mechanism app business

7. Start a real estate processing app business

8. Start an ecommerce crypto payment app business

Ecommerce crypto payment gateways allow businesses to accept transactions or cryptocurrencies from customers in exchange for goods or services. Ideally, crypto payment gateways accept payments from any country and emphasize security due to the nature of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.

When a customer makes a purchase using cryptocurrency as payment, the transaction goes through the payment gateway at a fixed exchange rate.

9. Start a NFT marketplace app business

How much you can make: $30,000/month

Case Study
How We Accidentally Built The Most Advanced NFT System In The World
RMRK developed the most advanced NFT system in the world, generating $1 million per month in volume and $30k per month in revenue, due to founder Bruno's hack to put NFTs onto a chain without smart contracts.
$30K Monthly Revenue
$350K Startup Costs
3
9.36K

10. Start a decentralized app

Decentralized apps are digital applications that exist and run on the blockchain or peer-to-peer networks of computers instead of on single computers.

Before you build a decentralized app business, it helps to know your competition and trends ushering in the new wave of decentralized Apps. Remember that dApps aren’t an entirely new concept. The new shared trust mechanisms that are cryptographically secured make the modern decentralized apps stand out. The decentralized apps will be more involved in day-to-day living, reducing costs and eliminating third parties from many of our personal and business transactions. In addition, app developers can expect to create dApps with a heavy focus on the metaverse.

How long does it take to build: 350 days (?)

11. Start a music royalties tracking app business

How much you can make: $50,000/month

Case Study
I Bootstrapped A $600K/Year Video Production Company [10M Downloads]
ProductionCrate, a virtual studio offering royalty-free music, video effects, graphics and sound assets, bootstrapped to $600k/year with over 10 million downloads, and one million users, thanks to loyal customer retention rates of around 80% YoY growth at 120%.
$50K Monthly Revenue
$15 Startup Costs
7
2.95K

12. Start a loyalty program app business

13. Start a multicurrency wallet app business

How much you can make: $35,000 — $220,000/month

Case Study
We Built An Open Source Crypto Platform & Make $420K/Year
HollaEx, an open-source crypto software startup, evolved into a general-purpose crypto service and created a white-label exchange software with a one-day launch, resulting in a revenue of $420k per year as of 2021, with a focus on exchange technology and tackling key crypto infrastructure solutions like wallet tech, exchange hosting, and white-label services.
$35K Monthly Revenue
$10K Startup Costs
3
5.52K

14. Develop a supply chain & logistics monitoring app

How much you can make: $20,000/month

Case Study
This Dropshipper Built A $20K/Month Shopify Order Tracking App
Rush co-founder Kiril Kirilov has developed an all-in-one post-purchase solution for Shopify businesses that has achieved $20k in monthly recurring revenue, boasting impressive last mile updates and notifications, customizable tracking pages, and upselling and cross-selling options.
$20K Monthly Revenue
$300K Startup Costs
2
5.55K

15. Start a distributed cloud storage app business

16. Start a smart contracts app business

How much you can make: $230,000/month

Case Study
Migrating lawyers to the cloud with legal technologist Richard Mabey, co-founder of Juro
Juro, founded by a lawyer and software engineer, has received $31.5m in tier 1 venture capital since 2016 and processed over 500k contracts with a goal to update the negotiation process for twenty-first-century lawyers.
$230K Monthly Revenue
1
1.21K

17. Start an original content creation app business

How much you can make: $5,000 — $40,000/month

Case Study
I Built A Simple AI Writing Tool That Makes $60K/Year
Rytr, a new AI writing assistant developed by a startup platform and business incubator, has become a market leader, serving over 300,000 customers across the world and doing seven figures in ARR.
$5K Monthly Revenue
$25K Startup Costs
10
5.77K

18. Start a medical data secure sharing app business

19. Start a cryptocurrency exchange app business

20. Start a digital identity-based app business

How much you can make: $10,000 — $833,333/month

Case Study
How These Former Resellers Built A $120K/Year Tool To Combat Bots
Yofi co-founders Jordan Shamir and Alex helped some of the largest brands in the world fight against resale bots, leading to the development of their customer identity platform that has stopped 51 million bot checkouts and acquired hundreds of new customers per month.
$10K Monthly Revenue
10
1.78K

21. Start a crowdfunding app business

How much you can make: $1,000 — $400,000/month

How long does it take to build: 272 days (?)

Case Study
How We Built And Launched A $100M Equity Crowdfunding Platform
StartEngine has helped over 265 companies raise capital from a community of 190,000 users on their equity crowdfunding platform, and has raised almost $100M to date, offering equity, debt, convertible note, and other types of securities to investors.
$400K Monthly Revenue
11
8.74K

22. Start a personal finance management app

How much you can make: $10,000 — $100,000/month

Case Study
I Left My Job At Facebook To Go Full-Time On My Budgeting App [$600K/Year]
Bootstrapped budgeting app Buxfer, founded by Shashank Pandit, has grown organically to profitability with a 15-person team and $0 spent on marketing, targeting niche "finance power users" with strong connections to banks all over the world.
$50K Monthly Revenue
$50K Startup Costs
2
3.94K

23. Start an advertising insights app business

How much you can make: $10,000/month

Case Study
How These Former Resellers Built A $120K/Year Tool To Combat Bots
Yofi co-founders Jordan Shamir and Alex helped some of the largest brands in the world fight against resale bots, leading to the development of their customer identity platform that has stopped 51 million bot checkouts and acquired hundreds of new customers per month.
$10K Monthly Revenue
10
1.78K

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