– Number of first trades made by clients significantly higher in first three quarters of 
2021 compared to entire 2020 –

– Increase in client activity comes ahead of scheduled marketing campaign due to commence in Q4 –

London, United Kingdom and Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – October 26, 2021) – GlobalBlock Digital Asset Trading Limited (TSXV: BLOK) (OTC Pink: BLVDF) (FSE: BD4) (the “Company” or “GlobalBlock”) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned operating subsidiary, GlobalBlock Limited (“GlobalBlock UK”), has seen the amount of clients making their first trades* rise by 146% in the first three quarters of 2021 compared to the whole of 2020. Clients fall into both the B2C and B2B categories, made up of individual retail customers and corporate or institutional clients.

The increase in client activity has been completely organic, driven by word of mouth. In order to accelerate this momentum, a marketing campaign is scheduled to soft launch this week, where GlobalBlock UK will target investors currently trading both digital assets and other asset classes. This campaign is being spearheaded by Jayne Cripps, GlobalBlock UK’s Head of Marketing, who has previously led successful campaigns at both CMC Markets and Interactive Investor. The campaign’s initial focus is on the Company’s unique multi-channel offering, that specialises in the provision of high quality customer service across their telephone broking, instant messaging, mobile app and online trading platform.

GlobalBlock UK is also pleased to announce that it has implemented the sophisticated customer relationship management (“CRM”) software Salesforce, which will help meet demand from the business’s growing client base and support business intelligence and reporting.

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Rufus Round, CEO at the Company, said:

“It is exciting to see the business grow organically with the increasing adoption of digital assets and uniquely by word of mouth. As we scale up further, we expect this to continue with the start of our marketing campaign and make future enhancements to GlobalBlock UK’s service offering. The implementation of CRM tools such as Salesforce is another step up for the business and its maturation.”

Since becoming part of a public company earlier in 2021, GlobalBlock UK has not only experienced an uplift in client activity, but greater brand exposure via increased media coverage, with members of the London based team regularly featuring in major publications via their comment on digital assets. Readers can sign up to receive daily cryptocurrency analysis and weekly deep delves via this link https://www.globalblock.co.uk/cryptoinsights.

*GlobalBlock UK calculates the number of clients making their first trades on a monthly basis when the client trades for the first time.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

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GlobalBlock Digital Asset Trading Limited is a publicly traded holding company (TSXV: BLOK) whose wholly owned subsidiary, GlobalBlock Limited (https://www.globalblock.co.uk), is a United Kingdom based digital asset broker that provides a personalised telephone brokerage service, trading platform and mobile app. Established in 2018 by an experienced team of financial services professionals, GlobalBlock Limited acts as a trusted agent serving the digital asset needs of individuals, corporates, institutional financial firms and intermediaries, providing best execution trading and safe custody of digital assets.

GlobalBlock Limited has been temporarily registered under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 as a cryptoasset business until 31st March 2022, pending the determination of the application by the Financial Conduct Authority. At this time, GlobalBlock Limited only accepts United Kingdom and Ireland resident clients or customers for its digital asset broker or trading services.

For further information please contact the Company at:

Rufus Round, CEO
c/o 65 Curzon Street, London, W1J 8PE, United Kingdom
Tel. +00 44 20 3286 2904
[email protected]

https://globalblock.co.uk/ and http://www.globalblockdigital.com/
https://twitter.com/Globalblocknews
https://www.linkedin.com/company/globalblock/

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ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES (NON-IFRS MEASURES)

Items marked with * in this news release are alternative performance measures. Alternative performance measures are furnished to provide additional information. These non-IFRS performance measures are included in this news release because the Company believes these statistics are key performance measures that provide investors, analysts and other stakeholders with additional information to understand the operations of the business. These performance measures do not have a standard meaning within IFRS and, therefore, amounts presented may not be comparable to similar data presented by other companies. These performance measures should not be considered in isolation as a substitute for measures of performance in accordance with IFRS.

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