Block, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQ)is a technology company focused on financial services and digital payments. The company was founded in 2009, formerly known as Square, Inc., and was renamed Block in 2021 to reflect its expanding product portfolio. The company operates Square merchant payment solutions, Cash App (provides peer-to-peer payments and Bitcoin transactions), Afterpay (provides buy-to-pay-after-pay), TIDAL (provides music streaming services), Bitkey (provides self-hosted Bitcoin wallets), and Proto (provides Bitcoin mining services).