Bolt Newsroom
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Aethir & Bolt Team Up to Support Direct Payments for Games Distributed Beyond App Stores
Jan 29, 2026
Discover how Aethir and Bolt joined forces to introduce direct, in-game payments for players beyond app stores.
Bolt Picks Affirm to Add BNPL Options at Checkout
Jan 27, 2026
The collaboration makes Affirm the default BNPL provider for Bolt’s network of merchants in the United States, the release said. The companies will begin integrating Affirm into Bolt’s checkout with select merchants this month, and there are plans to expand the integration across the merchant base.
Bolt Enters Gaming Through Partnership with Playfinity
Jan 22, 2026
Payments and checkout platform will power in-game commerce across a large portfolio of Japanese game IPs, including Lode Runner, Ring King and Zanac
Bolt Appoints Olta Andoni as SVP of Legal and People to Support Platform Expansion Across Checkout, Identity, and Payments
Jan 15, 2026
Bolt today announced the appointment of Olta Andoni as Senior Vice President of Legal and People. In this role, Andoni will oversee legal, regulatory, compliance, and people operations, integrating governance and talent strategy directly into Bolt’s expanding platform across checkout, identity, and payments.
Bolt introduces network identity system
Dec 1, 2025
Bolt, the checkout, identity and payments leader powering faster, smarter commerce, today announced the introduction of Bolt ID, a network identity system that helps merchants and shoppers reduce the growing risks associated with synthetic identity fraud and account takeover attacks.
Bolt’s New App Combines DeFi, TradFi, and Rewards
Sep 26, 2025
Bolt launched its all-in-one SuperApp, combining digital banking, crypto trading, ecommerce, and peer-to-peer transfers in a single platform.
Bolt Launches Super App for Managing Crypto, Fiat, Rewards and Shopping
Sep 25, 2025
Bolt launched its SuperApp that brings together on one platform cryptocurrency trading, peer-to-peer transfers, digital banking and commerce.
Bolt bridges the fiat/crypto gap with app upgrade
Sep 25, 2025
Bolt, the checkout, identity, and payments platform, today announced the official launch of its all-in-one SuperApp, bridging the fiat-crypto gap and giving users a unified way to shop, spend, save, earn and invest.
Why Bolt eliminated traditional HR and reset with a new People Ops approach
Sep 15, 2025
This year, fintech company Bolt made the bold move to eliminate its HR department, and replace it with People Ops. What's the difference between these two approaches? UNLEASH sat down with Bolt's Head of People Ops Kelly Lawson Pihl to find out.
Why fintech company Bolt eliminated its unlimited time off policy
Sep 15, 2025
The goal was to close the gap between employees over and underutilizing the benefit, Kelly Lawson Pihl, Bolt’s head of people operations, tells HR Brew.
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow was a progressive workplace innovator. Now he’s axing it all
Jul 21, 2025
The charismatic founder explains why the four-day workweek, unlimited PTO, and even HR no longer make sense for his startup.
Why this CEO just killed unlimited vacation days at his company
Jul 7, 2025
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says his company is abandoning unlimited vacation days for workers. Hear his motivation and what he is offering up instead.
Bolt’s millennial founder has just ‘killed’ its unlimited PTO perk because it was actually causing burnout
Jul 2, 2025
As companies like Netflix double down on unlimited PTO benefits, the boss of $11 billion fintech company, Bolt has just axed the policy altogether. Its millennial founder and CEO Ryan Breslow says instead of encouraging flexibility, it bred burnout and unfairness. Now, he’s capping vacations because the ‘bad ones’ were taking too much time off.
Bolt CEO explains why he just killed unlimited PTO at the company
Jul 1, 2025
Bolt is ending its unlimited PTO policy. CEO Ryan Breslow said such policies lead to "the good ones not taking PTO" and "the bad ones taking too much." The company will now implement four mandatory paid weeks off.
