Blockchain-Ads vs A-ADS: a $10,000 door onto a wallet graph against a $100 door with no name, and what each contract does with the money you do not spend

Blockchain-Ads and A-ADS sit at the two ends of the crypto advertising price list, and almost nothing between those ends is shared. One is a demand-side platform that asks for $10,000, a qualification call and a company name before it buys you impressions on inventory it says it does not own; the other is a fourteen-year-old banner network that takes $100 from anyone, including a person with no email address, and shows the ads on about two thousand sites that joined through a form. Both are reviewed on this site, Blockchain-Ads at 4.5/10 and A-ADS at 7/10, and both have been read against HypeLab’s comparison pages about them. This piece puts them against each other: both contracts, both help centres, both Trustpilot profiles and both sets of counters, every page loaded again on 4 November 2026.

The short answer

For any budget below $10,000 the question answers itself, because only one of the two will take the money. For a budget above it the answer is still A-ADS first, and not because A-ADS is the better product. It is a cheaper, cruder, more honest one: a hundred dollars in, a campaign live within an hour, a public statistics page that shows the whole network’s impressions, unique visitors, clicks and bitcoin spend day by day, and a contract whose worst clauses, the twenty percent fee and the discretionary refund, are at least short enough to read in a minute. Spend $100 there, read your own numbers against the network’s, and you will know within a week whether banner reach on crypto long-tail sites does anything for you.

Blockchain-Ads sells something A-ADS cannot, an audience selected by what sits in its wallets, and it sells that through a door that only opens after a call, a $10,000 deposit it says is the floor on every top-up, and a contract that has moved against the advertiser twice since September. If wallet-level targeting is the campaign, it is one of the few places in this niche that claims to deliver it, and our Blockchain-Ads vs Bitmedia head-to-head sets it beside the only self-serve rival that sells the same promise. If reach is the campaign, the $10,000 would buy a hundred separate A-ADS tests, and the second of those tests would already tell you more than the qualification call will.

What each platform actually sells

Blockchain-Ads describes itself, in clause 2.2 of its own agreement, as a company that “does not own the Inventory and does not operate the websites, applications, streaming services, CTV environments, or other properties on which Advertisements may appear.” Its inventory article says the ads run through “the top 78 supply partners across 195+ countries, spanning hundreds of thousands of websites, apps, and platforms”, and its agreement says it buys that inventory on your behalf through the NEXUS Ad Exchange. What it owns is the audience layer: its FAQ counts “11M+ active wallets” drawn from “420M+ verified user profiles overall” across “Top 82 blockchains”, and sells custom audiences built from a smart-contract address or a list of wallets. The pricing is CPM, “starting around $7” on the FAQ, with no rate card anywhere on the site, a /pricing address that was not found on 4 November, and a Performance Max product that optimises toward a target CPA while clause 4.5 of the agreement says it never bills on acquisitions.

A-ADS is the opposite shape. Alpha Communication Services Limited of Hong Kong has run it since 2011, it rebranded to AADS in August 2025, and it operates its own network: on 4 November its statistics page counted 1,992 active publishers, 5,185 live ad units and 421 active campaigns. There is no wallet graph. Targeting is by category, by language, or by picking sites one by one from the catalogue, and its advertise page says plainly that “Geographic targeting is achieved by combining language and category filters.” The price model is Cost Per Day: the help centre says “AADS is neither a pay-per-click (PPC) nor a pay-per-impression (CPM) advertising network”, you set a daily budget and receive a share of the selected traffic in proportion to what every other advertiser on it is spending. The network-average CPM is printed as $0.04 on the advertise page and, since late October, as $0.05 on the about and ad-formats pages. A max-CPM parameter and a CPM switch labelled beta exist in the campaign wizard for advertisers who want a ceiling.

Put differently: Blockchain-Ads sells who sees the ad and asks you to trust it about where; A-ADS sells where the ad runs, down to the individual site, and tells you nothing about who. Everything else in this comparison, the price of entry, the contract, the publisher side, follows from that split.

Getting in: a call and ten thousand dollars, or a hundred dollars and an access code

Blockchain-Ads has no self-serve registration. Its FAQ answers “How do I get started” with “There is a qualification process to verify as an advertiser on Blockchain-Ads. Schedule a qualification meeting with the media team to proceed.” The help article on that program says the meeting lasts “20–30 minutes”, that a decision follows “within 24 to 48 hours”, that it may ask for “business registration proof, identity verification, or compliance certificates”, and the verification page adds the sentence that matters: “Meeting does not guarantee approval. Compliance checks, company’s credibility, and budget thresholds are evaluated.” A refused applicant “will need to wait 30 days before re-enrollment is possible”. The hub at hub.blockchain-ads.com is headed “Sign in or create an account” and offers, at the time of writing, a sign-in form and a Google button with no registration link; the old app.blockchain-ads.com address answers with a one-line page that says it “has been permanently removed”.

The money comes next. Clause 4.1 of the agreement reads “The minimum initial funding is USD 10,000 for self-service and USD 30,000 for managed service.” The help centre’s minimum-deposit article, which calls itself “the authoritative article for all three figures”, says “$10,000 is the floor on every deposit. Your first deposit and every top-up after it meet the same minimum, so there is no smaller top-up.” The daily budget of $360 per campaign is “a setting, not a payment”, and “At $360 a day, a $10,000 deposit is roughly a month of advertising for one campaign.” The $30,000 managed figure “is ad spend, not a deposit”. Payment can be made in “150+ assets via Now Payments”, by card through Stripe, by ACH, SWIFT or Wise, and the credit you receive is “the net USD value confirmed by the applicable payment processor after network and conversion charges”.

A-ADS has a door with no doorman. Its account article offers two ways in, “By Email (Recommended)” and an access code: click “Anonymous sign up” at the bottom of the login window and the platform issues a code that is the only key to the account, with the warning that without it “you won’t be able to access your account again”. The minimum-deposit article, dated 30 September 2025, says “The minimum deposit is 100 USD, or higher depending on the selected coin and network (e.g., 250 USD for USDT ERC20)”, and the card route through Changelly comes with its own line, “Don’t deposit less than 125 USD”. Deposits in anything other than bitcoin pay a 3% conversion fee plus 0.5% for most coins or 1% for ERC-20 and BEP-20 tokens, and everything is held as bitcoin. A deposit below the minimum “will be used to cover fees incurred by AADS and will not be credited to the advertisers account nor returned to the advertiser”, although the newest Trustpilot review on the profile, from September 2026, describes support manually crediting exactly such a deposit. The advertise page promises “Quick manual campaign moderation within 1 hour”, and the FAQ beneath it says ads are reviewed “typically within 1 hour” for scams, malware and copyright before the campaign goes live automatically. The help centre adds that there is “No KYC required unless you target specific websites like poocoin.app”, where a Sumsub check applies.

What the contracts do with money you do not spend

Blockchain-Ads rewrote its Advertiser Agreement on 26 October 2026 without giving the new text a version number; the header reads “Last updated 26 October 2026” and the footer lists Version 1.3 and Version 1.2 as archived. Section 17 is now headed “No refund on closure, termination or unused credit” and says that closing the account, termination, “or the mere existence of unused Advertising Credit does not create a refund or cash-redemption right. Any request for a discretionary refund on closure or otherwise may be declined”, and that any refund it does grant “is case-specific and does not establish a practice, precedent, or entitlement”. Clause 12.1 adds that termination “by either party does not create a refund right”, where the September text had promised one when Blockchain-Ads itself ended the contract without cause. Cash is reserved, in 17.5, for a “verified technical failure of systems controlled by Blockchain-Ads”. Paid credit that sits idle for “12 consecutive months” expires on thirty days’ notice. Clause 14.5 says no account manager “may not vary the Agreement or promise a refund, credit, or exception unless authorised in a written amendment or Order”, which is worth remembering when the qualification call turns to what happens if the campaign does not work.

The same document sets the rest of the risk. Clause 2.4 says a self-service advertiser “assumes all risk, and accepts all responsibility and liability” for its campaigns, 7.1 that “Invalid Traffic is an inherent risk of programmatic advertising”, with fourteen days to raise a claim, and 16.4 caps Blockchain-Ads’ liability at “the lesser of” three months’ fees or USD 25,000, where the September text said the greater. Clause 14.3 makes continued use for ten business days after a notice count as acceptance of the next rewrite, and 13.5 lets the company “use the Advertiser’s name or logo in public case studies and for other promotional purposes” unless you opt out by email. Disputes go to “confidential arbitration administered by the BVI International Arbitration Centre” in Road Town, one arbitrator, under British Virgin Islands law, with a twelve-month bar on claims. The refund-policy page, meanwhile, still shows “Version 1.3” as in effect from 21 September 2026, under which an advertiser “may submit a request for a discretionary closure refund only after at least 35% of the total paid Advertising Credit purchased by that Advertiser has been consumed”. The gate the policy page describes is no longer in the agreement the page sits beside. Our refund-policy comparison tracks each rewrite.

A-ADS’ terms are older, shorter and no kinder, and they have the advantage of saying the same thing every time. The fee clause is one sentence: “Twenty percent of all monies paid for the advertising service, but not less than ten percent of the deposited funds, shall be retained by AADS as fees.” The refund clause is another: “Any refunds are at the entire discretion of AADS.” Nothing comes back once it has been paid out to publishers, accounts idle for six months are deleted with their balances, a locked account is unlocked only against identity documents and a 10% administrative fee, and multiple accounts attract a recovery fee of 50% or more. There is no liability cap because there is no liability: the terms say AADS “offers no guarantees and shall not be liable for any losses incurred or claimed to have been incurred by anyone using AADS”, and list profits, opportunities, goodwill and data among the losses it means. Hong Kong law applies and disputes go to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. The difference from Blockchain-Ads is one of scale, not kind: a $100 deposit held at someone’s discretion is a $100 problem, and the twenty percent you lose on it is $20.

Targeting, formats and the speed of a “yes”

Blockchain-Ads’ targeting menu is the reason to put up with its door. Its wallet article and FAQ describe audiences built from on-chain activity and token holdings across “Top 82 blockchains”, with a thirty-day activity window, and the option to hand over a smart-contract address or a wallet list and reach the people who touched it. The technology page counts the segments at “around 1,000”, the media kit and the inventory article at 69 and up, and both are printed as current. Formats are display and video with a “700kb max” creative, plus “Push, pop, and Telegram mini app ads” for existing advertisers, run through a demand-side platform that bids on CPM or CPC and, in its Performance Max product, promises to “optimize toward your target CPA”. Approval is the call, then 24 to 48 hours, then the deposit; nothing runs before all three.

A-ADS’ menu fits on one line: “all available traffic, chosen publishers’ categories, or specific websites”, plus a browser-language filter, which is as close to geography as the platform gets. The campaign wizard offers “ready-made traffic packs” or “manual selection from catalog”, where every live ad unit on the network is listed with its own expected CPM, and the advertiser FAQ lists sixteen banner sizes, a 700 kB limit and a ban on pop-unders, JavaScript and cookies in creatives. There is a max-CPM ceiling, a CPM bidding switch marked beta, a cost-per-action model on request and a goal-tracking API. The daily budget is the whole price: the help centre’s example runs a $10 a day campaign that gets 10,000 impressions until a second advertiser arrives at $10 and both get 5,000, and recommends “Minimum 200$ per day” for all categories and “Minimum 300$ per day” for premium sites, while the minimum the platform enforces is $1. The acceptance policy rejects unlicensed gambling and tokens with under $500 of liquidity and marks anything under $50,000 as risky. Moderation is a person reading the ad, usually within the hour; the help centre promises support “24/7”. Approval here is faster than Blockchain-Ads’ call takes to schedule, and our daily-budget comparison shows A-ADS is the only network in the niche with no enforced daily floor at all.

The publisher side, where only one of them has a door

Blockchain-Ads has no publisher program that a site owner can apply to. Its FAQ says it “has a strict selection and qualification process for onboarding new publishers”, its /publishers address was not found on 4 November from two countries, there are no publisher terms, no payout threshold and no rate anywhere on the site, and the one program it does publish, the partner program, is a referral scheme: “Earn 10% recurring on every dollar your referrals spend”, 20% for certified partners, paid on Net 30 terms against an “Expected referral lifetime” the page puts at six months. That is consistent with clause 2.2: a company that does not own the inventory has no publishers to pay, only supply partners to buy from.

A-ADS is, on the other side of its own trade, a publisher network first. Its earn page says “There is no strict minimum traffic requirement, though higher-traffic sites with engaged crypto audiences naturally attract more advertisers and earn more”, that “It takes less than a minute to become a publisher”, and that the ad unit is “just a lightweight HTML iframe” with no JavaScript. The publisher terms, in force since 3 April 2026, require a domain “registered at least three (3) months prior”, refuse free subdomains and bot-fed or mirror sites, count “a valid ad view counted only once per IP address within a twenty-four (24) hour period, regardless of multiple visits or banner loads”, and carry a section called “Fraud Prevention and Auditing”. Payouts are bitcoin only: the help centre says “The minimum withdrawal to a Bitcoin wallet is BTC 0.001, and you can withdraw absolutely any sum through the Lightining network” (sic), and “Normally, withdrawals are processed once every 24 hours.” The publisher keeps 80% of what advertisers pay. On 4 November the statistics page showed 1,992 active publishers and a “Publishers’ earnings” counter of $114,205, which, divided out, is about $57 per publisher per month. Our A-ADS publisher guide runs its estimator for the main site categories.

What the same $10,000 buys

This is our arithmetic from the two companies’ published numbers, and it is labelled as such. On Blockchain-Ads, $10,000 is the minimum, and at the FAQ’s CPM “starting around $7” it buys about 1.4 million impressions on wallet-selected audiences across its supply partners, which the help centre’s own example spreads over “roughly a month” at $360 a day. The only worked outputs the company publishes are its case studies, headed “Figures are for illustration only.”, in which a Coinbase campaign spends $410,000 for 31,896 results at $12.85 each.

On A-ADS, $10,000 is a hundred times the minimum. At the advertise page’s $0.04 average it buys 250 million impressions; at the network’s own 31-day ratio of globally unique to total impressions, 3.29% between 5 October and 4 November, about 8.2 million of those are first views from a distinct address in a day, and at the network’s raw click rate for the same period, 0.043%, they produce roughly 107,000 clicks. The statistics page gives a second answer. Its 31-day series shows advertisers spending 1.52 BTC, about $118,000 at the 4 November price of $77,823, for 6.59 billion impressions, which is under two cents per thousand delivered and about $0.55 per thousand globally unique; at that rate $10,000 buys more than half a billion impressions and 18 million unique ones. Whichever figure you use, one dollar on A-ADS buys several hundred times the impressions of one dollar on Blockchain-Ads, and what that dollar does not buy is any idea of who saw them.

One more number from the same page needs a label. The dollar value of the “Publishers’ earnings” counter read $89,877 on 3 November and $114,205 on 4 November, while the trailing bitcoin spend in the series stayed at about 1.5 BTC and the bitcoin price moved less than two percent. Whatever the counter now measures, the bitcoin series underneath it did not change, and that series is the number to plan with.

Where each platform contradicts itself

Blockchain-Ads’ pages disagree with each other on the question that matters most. The minimum-deposit article says the $10,000 applies to “every deposit” and calls itself authoritative; the funding article on the same help centre says “The $10,000 is a one-time minimum deposit required to activate your advertiser account”. The billing FAQ answers “Can I get a refund for unused funds?” with “No. Deposited funds are nonrefundable” in one place and, in another, with “non-refundable except a platform error reported within 48 hours with 35% of the initial budget spent”, which matches neither the refund-policy page’s Version 1.3 nor the 26 October agreement. The reviews page says the company is “rated 4.7 on G2 from 71 verified reviews and 2.6 on Trustpilot from 58 open reviews”; Trustpilot showed 2.2 from 43 on 4 November. The home page carries a testimonial about reach “across 10,000+ websites”, the inventory article says “hundreds of thousands”, and the agreement says it owns none of them. The partner program sells referrals, not supply, while the FAQ describes a publisher onboarding process that has no public entrance. Our HypeLab vs Blockchain-Ads head-to-head lists the same contradictions from a rival’s angle.

A-ADS’ contradictions are smaller and newer. Its advertise page prints an average CPM of $0.04, its about and ad-formats pages have printed $0.05 since late October, and its about page counts 186 million impressions a day where the ad-formats page says 187 million. The terms say a deposit under the minimum “will not be credited to the advertisers account nor returned to the advertiser”; the most recent review on its Trustpilot profile describes support crediting one by hand, and the company’s reply does not dispute it. The help article titled “AADS Advertising Fees” describes a “20% commission on the order value” that belongs to the marketplace, not the advertising fee the terms describe. The help centre’s list of unique advantages says “Self-service platform: No need to contact a manager”, and the home page FAQ says “our managers will help you with the setup”. None of these costs an advertiser money; the Blockchain-Ads ones can.

Trustpilot, read properly

On 4 November 2026 Blockchain-Ads’ profile scored 2.2 out of 5 from 43 reviews: 23 one-star, 7 two-star, 4 three-star, 4 four-star and 5 five-star, with 25 of the 43 written in the last twelve months. The count was 44 a day earlier; one one-star review older than the first page has left the profile, and the score did not move. The company has replied to 2 of its 18 negative reviews, 11%, the last time on 12 February 2026. The newest review, a five-star from 30 October, is written from an agency’s side of the table: “Roughly 40% of our clients that are running campaigns on Blockchain-Ads are getting positive ROI”, mostly licensed brands with substantial budgets who ran for three or four months. The four-star from 8 October puts the CTR at “around 0.4%”, says conversions came “only after a month”, and ends “If you have small budgets don’t waste time.” Between them sit four one-star reviews posted on consecutive days in mid-August 2026 that give no figures at all, and an older one that does: “approximately $20,000” in July 2026. Blockchain-Ads’ own reviews page still quotes the profile at 2.6 from 58.

A-ADS’ profile the same morning scored 3.9 from 186 reviews: 35 one-star, 1 two-star, 3 three-star, 12 four-star and 135 five-star, so 73% five-star and 19% one-star, with six reviews in the last twelve months and the one negative among them answered, which is why the page says the company has replied to 100% of negatives. Most of the five-star reviews are publishers thanking it for daily bitcoin payouts, some after seven or eight years. The newest review, a four-star from 8 September 2026, is the sub-minimum deposit credited by hand. The one-star from 25 April 2026 describes a campaign that sat on “starting” status and got a reply on 13 May; the five-star from 31 March 2026 says “Set up a campaign in like 20 min, no KYC… The fact you can pay in crypto and pick exact publishers is huge.” The oldest complaint that matters is from October 2024: a test site with no traffic, a dashboard showing 35 clicks and analytics showing none, which the company did not answer. Read the two profiles for what they are: one is advertisers who paid five figures writing about results, the other is mostly publishers who were paid writing about payouts, with a thin layer of advertisers underneath.

Side by side

	Blockchain-Ads	A-ADS
Company	BCA Labs Corporation, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands; BVI law; confidential arbitration at the BVI International Arbitration Centre	Alpha Communication Services Limited, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong; Hong Kong law; arbitration at the HKIAC
Running since	2021	2011 (rebranded AADS in August 2025)
Contract in force	Advertiser Agreement “Last updated 26 October 2026”; refund-policy page still Version 1.3 of 21 September	Advertiser terms (undated); publisher terms in force from 3 April 2026
What it is	Demand-side platform; “does not own the Inventory”; 78 supply partners via the NEXUS exchange	Banner network with its own publishers: 1,992 sites, 5,185 ad units on 4 November
Getting in	Qualification call of 20 to 30 minutes, decision in 24 to 48 hours, documents on request; no self-serve registration	Email or anonymous access code; no identity check unless a placement requires one
Advertiser minimum	$10,000, “the floor on every deposit”; $30,000 a month of spend for managed service	$100 in most coins; $250 in USDT on Ethereum; $125 by card
Daily budget	$360 per campaign	No enforced floor; $200 recommended, $300 for premium sites
Price model	CPM or CPC through the DSP; CPM “starting around $7”; no rate card	Cost per day, a share of the selected traffic; average CPM printed as $0.04 and $0.05; optional max CPM
Targeting	Wallet activity and holdings across 82 blockchains; custom audiences by contract or wallet list	Categories, individual sites from the catalogue, browser language; no geography
Formats	Display and video, 700 kB; push, pop and Telegram mini-app for existing advertisers	Sixteen banner sizes, 700 kB; no pop-unders, JavaScript or cookies
Approval	After the call: 24 to 48 hours	Manual moderation, “typically within 1 hour”
Payment rails	150+ cryptoassets via NowPayments, card via Stripe, ACH, SWIFT, Wise	About 20 cryptocurrencies, card via Changelly; everything converted to bitcoin
Fee on the money	Credit is the net USD value after processor charges	20% of all monies paid, never less than 10% of the deposit; 3% conversion plus 0.5% or 1% on non-bitcoin deposits
Unused balance	Closure refund “may be declined”; termination by either party creates no refund right; cash only for a verified system failure	“at the entire discretion of AADS”; nothing once paid to publishers
Idle balance	Expires after 12 consecutive idle months on 30 days’ notice	Account and balance deleted after six idle months
Liability	The lesser of three months’ fees or USD 25,000	None accepted
Publisher door	None public; /publishers not found	Form, under a minute; domain at least three months old; no traffic minimum
Publisher payout	Not published	Bitcoin only, 0.001 BTC on-chain or any sum over Lightning, processed every 24 hours; publisher keeps 80%
Trustpilot, 4 November 2026	2.2/5, 43 reviews, 23 one-star, replied to 11% of negatives	3.9/5, 186 reviews, 35 one-star, 6 in the last 12 months, negatives answered
Our score	4.5/10	7/10

Which door for which campaign

A licensed exchange, a regulated broker or a funded protocol with a $30,000 a month media plan and an audience defined by what it holds on-chain has a case for Blockchain-Ads, and the 30 October review describes exactly that advertiser doing well after three or four months. Go in with the agreement read, a written note of which refund terms were discussed on the call, the knowledge that the person on the call cannot promise any, and a tracking setup that measures its wallet claim against your own conversions, because the contract says invalid traffic is your risk and gives you fourteen days to prove otherwise.

A token launch, a tool, a game, a faucet, a content site, an affiliate page or anyone whose month’s budget is in the hundreds has only one of these two doors, and it is the better one for them anyway. Pick the sites from the catalogue rather than buying the whole network, set a daily budget you can lose, read the per-site statistics daily, and treat the $100 as the price of a week’s data. A-ADS will not tell you who clicked, and its 3.29% unique ratio says most of what it serves is the same browsers seeing the same banner again. For the same anonymous reach with a sign-up form and a $300 door, our A-ADS vs Bitmedia head-to-head is the next read; for the managed desk at the other end, Cointraffic vs A-ADS.

A publisher has one door too. A-ADS takes any site with a three-month-old domain and pays in bitcoin every day; Blockchain-Ads has no address for you to apply at, and its partner program pays for advertisers you send it, not for traffic.

The bottom line

These two companies barely sell the same thing, and the best way to choose is to notice which of them lets you check. A-ADS publishes its network’s daily impressions, unique visitors, clicks and bitcoin spend for anyone to read, lists every site you can buy, shows the expected CPM of each one, takes $100 and shows the ad within the hour; what it cannot do is tell you who saw it, and its contract keeps a fifth of your money and decides the rest at its discretion. Blockchain-Ads sells the audience A-ADS cannot, on inventory it does not own, behind a call that does not guarantee a yes, a $10,000 floor its own help centre describes two different ways, a contract rewritten against the advertiser twice in five weeks and a Trustpilot page where more than half the reviews are one star. Our Blockchain-Ads score of 4.5/10 and our A-ADS score of 7/10 both stand after today’s re-read. If wallet targeting is the brief and the budget is there, Blockchain-Ads is one of two places in this niche to buy it, and our Blockchain-Ads vs Coinzilla head-to-head sets it against the news-site alternative. If the brief is reach and the budget is anything else, start at the cheap door, and read what it shows you.

Blockchain-Ads vs A-ADS FAQ

What is the minimum deposit at Blockchain-Ads and at A-ADS?

Blockchain-Ads’ agreement sets “USD 10,000 for self-service and USD 30,000 for managed service”, its help centre calls $10,000 “the floor on every deposit”, and the daily budget is $360 per campaign. A-ADS’ help centre sets $100, “or higher depending on the selected coin and network (e.g., 250 USD for USDT ERC20)”, with $125 by card, and the only daily minimum is the $1 the form accepts.

Can I get an unused balance refunded from either platform?

Not as a right from either. Blockchain-Ads’ agreement of 26 October 2026 says a closure refund “may be declined”, that termination by either side creates no refund right, and that cash is paid only for a verified failure of its own systems; its refund-policy page still describes an older 35% consumption gate. A-ADS’ terms say refunds are “at the entire discretion of AADS”, keep twenty percent of what you paid in any case, and delete idle balances after six months.

Does A-ADS offer wallet targeting like Blockchain-Ads?

No. A-ADS targets by site category, by individual site from its catalogue and by browser language, and has no geographic targeting of its own. Blockchain-Ads sells audiences built from wallet activity and token holdings across 82 blockchains, including custom lists by contract or wallet address, on inventory bought through supply partners it does not operate.

What do their Trustpilot profiles show?

On 4 November 2026 Blockchain-Ads scored 2.2 from 43 reviews, 23 of them one star, with replies to 11% of negatives and the last reply in February 2026. A-ADS scored 3.9 from 186, 135 five-star and 35 one-star, with six reviews in the last twelve months and its one recent negative answered. Most of A-ADS’ praise comes from publishers writing about payouts; most of Blockchain-Ads’ complaints come from advertisers writing about five-figure budgets.

Can a publisher join Blockchain-Ads or A-ADS?

Only A-ADS. Its form takes under a minute, needs a domain registered at least three months earlier, sets no traffic minimum and pays in bitcoin every 24 hours from 0.001 BTC, or any amount over Lightning, with the publisher keeping 80%. Blockchain-Ads describes a “strict selection and qualification process” for publishers but publishes no address, terms or payout for them, and its agreement says it does not own the inventory it buys.

How much reach does $10,000 buy on each?

By our arithmetic from their published figures: about 1.4 million wallet-targeted impressions on Blockchain-Ads at its “starting around $7” CPM, spread over roughly a month at the $360 daily budget; on A-ADS, 250 million impressions at the $0.04 average its advertise page prints, of which about 8.2 million would be globally unique at the network’s 3.29% ratio for the 31 days to 4 November, or more than twice that at the price its own bitcoin series implies.

Reviewed in full

• Blockchain-Ads 4.5/10

  The biggest claims in crypto advertising — behind a $10,000 door and a 2.6-star record.

• A-ADS 7/10

  The 2011 original — still anonymous, still cookie-less, still paying in BTC every day.

• HypeLab 7/10

  Ads where the wallets already are — the most engineering-dense young network in the niche.

• Bitmedia 6.5/10

  The Web3 ad veteran with deep targeting — and a thinning footprint on premium crypto media.

• Coinzilla 9/10

  The default choice in crypto advertising — quietly displacing older rivals.

• Cointraffic 7.5/10

  Premium crypto inventory and the friendliest payouts in the niche — three doors in, from €500 marketplace to €3,000 managed.

Sources

The figures above come from these pages, published by the companies themselves unless noted. "Checked" is the date we last read each page.

1. Blockchain-Ads Advertiser Agreement, “Last updated 26 October 2026” (re-read 4 Nov 2026, unchanged since 30 Oct): clauses 2.2, 2.4, 4.1, 4.5, 4.8, 7.1, 7.4, 12.1, 12.4, 13.5, 14.3, 14.5, 15.2–15.4, 16.4 and section 17 checked 4 Nov 2026
2. Blockchain-Ads refund policy page, still Version 1.3 in effect from 21 September 2026 (35% consumption gate for a discretionary closure refund) checked 4 Nov 2026
3. Blockchain-Ads help centre: $10,000 “the floor on every deposit”, $360 “a setting, not a payment”, $30,000 “ad spend, not a deposit”, “the authoritative article for all three figures” checked 4 Nov 2026
4. Blockchain-Ads help centre: “The $10,000 is a one-time minimum deposit required to activate your advertiser account”; 150+ assets via NowPayments, card via Stripe, ACH, SWIFT, Wise checked 4 Nov 2026
5. Blockchain-Ads billing and payments FAQ: the two refund answers (“Deposited funds are nonrefundable” and the 48-hour platform-error exception with 35% spent) checked 4 Nov 2026
6. Blockchain-Ads Advertiser Qualification and Verification program: 20–30 minute meeting, decision within 24 to 48 hours, documents on request, 30-day wait before re-enrolment checked 4 Nov 2026
7. Blockchain-Ads verification page: “Meeting does not guarantee approval. Compliance checks, company’s credibility, and budget thresholds are evaluated.” checked 4 Nov 2026
8. Blockchain-Ads inventory article: “the top 78 supply partners across 195+ countries, spanning hundreds of thousands of websites, apps, and platforms”; 69+ segments checked 4 Nov 2026
9. Blockchain-Ads help centre: wallet-activity targeting, 30-day activity window, token holdings checked 4 Nov 2026
10. Blockchain-Ads Performance Max article: “optimize toward your target CPA” checked 4 Nov 2026
11. Blockchain-Ads FAQ: qualification meeting, “Top 82 blockchains”, “11M+ active wallets” of “420M+ verified user profiles”, custom audiences by contract or wallet list, CPM “starting around $7”, 700kb creatives, “Push, pop, and Telegram mini app ads”, publishers’ “strict selection and qualification process” checked 4 Nov 2026
12. Blockchain-Ads home page: advertisers “spend around $135K per month on average, with the highest spenders allocating $1M”; testimonial about reach “across 10,000+ websites” checked 4 Nov 2026
13. Blockchain-Ads technology page: “around 1,000” audience segments checked 4 Nov 2026
14. Blockchain-Ads media kit: 69+ segments checked 4 Nov 2026
15. Blockchain-Ads partner program: “Earn 10% recurring on every dollar your referrals spend”, 20% for certified partners, Net 30, “Expected referral lifetime” of six months checked 4 Nov 2026
16. Blockchain-Ads reviews page: founded 2021; “rated 4.7 on G2 from 71 verified reviews and 2.6 on Trustpilot from 58 open reviews” checked 4 Nov 2026
17. Blockchain-Ads case studies index: “Figures are for illustration only.” checked 4 Nov 2026
18. Blockchain-Ads Coinbase case study: $410,000 spend, 31,896 results, $12.85 each checked 4 Nov 2026
19. Blockchain-Ads /publishers: not found on 4 November 2026 from two countries checked 4 Nov 2026
20. Blockchain-Ads /pricing: not found on 4 November 2026 checked 4 Nov 2026
21. Blockchain-Ads hub sign-in page: “Sign in or create an account”, a sign-in form and a Google button, no registration link (4 November 2026) checked 4 Nov 2026
22. Former Blockchain-Ads app address: “This page has been permanently removed” (HTTP 410, 4 November 2026) checked 4 Nov 2026
23. Trustpilot profile of blockchain-ads.com: 2.2/5 from 43 reviews (23 one-star, 7 two, 4 three, 4 four, 5 five), 25 in the last 12 months, replied to 2 of 18 negatives (11%), last reply 12 February 2026; 44 reviews on 3 November; newest a five-star of 30 October 2026, four-star of 8 October 2026 (read 4 November 2026, 06:3x UTC) checked 4 Nov 2026
24. AADS terms of service: Alpha Communication Services Limited, Hong Kong law and HKIAC; “Twenty percent of all monies paid … not less than ten percent of the deposited funds”; “Any refunds are at the entire discretion of AADS”; no-liability clause; six-month idle deletion; 10% administrative and 50% recovery fees; publisher terms in force from 3 April 2026 (three-month domain rule, unique impression per IP per 24 hours, Fraud Prevention and Auditing, 0.001 BTC or any sum over Lightning) checked 4 Nov 2026
25. AADS advertise page: 6.4B impressions, “$0.04 Average CPM”, 1992 publishers, “Quick manual campaign moderation within 1 hour”, review “typically within 1 hour”, targeting “all available traffic, chosen publishers’ categories, or specific websites”, “Geographic targeting is achieved by combining language and category filters.” checked 4 Nov 2026
26. AADS about page: 186M impressions a day, 66K clicks a day, 0.05 average CPM, 1992 active publishers, 153 active advertisers, running since 2011 checked 4 Nov 2026
27. AADS ad formats page: 5447+ banner placements, 187M+ impressions a day, $0.05 average CPM checked 4 Nov 2026
28. AADS earn page: “There is no strict minimum traffic requirement, though higher-traffic sites with engaged crypto audiences naturally attract more advertisers and earn more”, “It takes less than a minute to become a publisher”, “just a lightweight HTML iframe”; counters 1992 publishers, $114K, 421 campaigns checked 4 Nov 2026
29. AADS network statistics, 4 November 2026 06:27 UTC: 1,992 active publishers, 5,185 live ad units, 421 active campaigns, “Publishers’ earnings” $114,205 ($89,877 on 3 November); 31-day series 5 October to 4 November: 6,594,239,671 impressions, 216,981,029 globally unique (3.29%), 2,816,296 clicks (0.043%), 1.5198 BTC advertiser spend checked 4 Nov 2026
30. AADS home page: counters 186M impressions, 5185 ad units, 1992 publishers, $114K, 421 campaigns; FAQ “our managers will help you with the setup” checked 4 Nov 2026
31. AADS marketplace: 178 articles and press releases, 75 banner and native, 8 social media, 17 video offers; 20% commission checked 4 Nov 2026
32. AADS help centre, updated 30 September 2025: “The minimum deposit is 100 USD, or higher depending on the selected coin and network (e.g., 250 USD for USDT ERC20)” checked 4 Nov 2026
33. AADS help centre, card deposits via Changelly: “Don’t deposit less than 125 USD” checked 4 Nov 2026
34. AADS help centre, payment methods and fees: 3% conversion, 0.5% for most altcoins, 1% for ERC20 and BEP20 tokens, everything converted to bitcoin checked 4 Nov 2026
35. AADS help centre, “AADS Advertising Fees” (updated 19 March 2026): “20% commission on the order value, so the Publisher receives 80% of the offer price set by them” checked 4 Nov 2026
36. AADS help centre: “AADS is neither a pay-per-click (PPC) nor a pay-per-impression (CPM) advertising network”; Cost Per Day explained with the $10-a-day example checked 4 Nov 2026
37. AADS help centre: “Minimum 200$ per day is recommended for all categories”, “Minimum 300$ per day is recommended for premium websites” checked 4 Nov 2026
38. AADS help centre: the Max CPM parameter checked 4 Nov 2026
39. AADS help centre, account creation: “By Email (Recommended)” or “Anonymous sign up” with an access code; “Without the access code, you won’t be able to access your account again” checked 4 Nov 2026
40. AADS help centre: “No KYC required unless you target specific websites like poocoin.app”; “Self-service platform: No need to contact a manager” checked 4 Nov 2026
41. AADS help centre: Sumsub KYC for Poocoin campaigns checked 4 Nov 2026
42. AADS advertiser FAQ: sixteen banner sizes, 700 kB limit, no pop-unders, JavaScript or cookies; CPD, CPA and revenue-share models checked 4 Nov 2026
43. AADS help centre, campaign creation: “ready-made traffic packs” or “manual selection from catalog” checked 4 Nov 2026
44. AADS ad acceptance policy v2: unlicensed gambling refused, tokens under $500 of liquidity rejected, under $50,000 marked risky checked 4 Nov 2026
45. AADS help centre, publisher withdrawals: “The minimum withdrawal to a Bitcoin wallet is BTC 0.001, and you can withdraw absolutely any sum through the Lightining network” (sic); “Normally, withdrawals are processed once every 24 hours.” checked 4 Nov 2026
46. AADS help centre: publisher setup in under a minute, no personal data required checked 4 Nov 2026
47. AADS help centre: Goal Tracking API checked 4 Nov 2026
48. Trustpilot profile of aads.com: 3.9/5 from 186 reviews (35 one-star, 1 two, 3 three, 12 four, 135 five), 6 in the last 12 months, the one negative of the period answered (last reply 13 May 2026); newest a four-star of 8 September 2026 (read 4 November 2026, 06:3x UTC) checked 4 Nov 2026
49. CoinGecko bitcoin price used for the dollar conversions: $77,823 on 4 November 2026, 06:3x UTC checked 4 Nov 2026

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