The Accountant Quits rebrands to Onchain Finance Institute (OCF)
Here's why we made the bet five years ago, and why 2026 is the year it pays off.
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Five years ago, we made a bet.
The internet of money was coming. And accountants weren't ready.
Rather than a prediction, it was an observation that all companies will eventually transact on blockchain rails. Stablecoins for payments. DeFi for borrowing and lending. Tokenized real-world assets for stocks, bonds.
Which means if you’re an accounting professional, it’s critical for you to understand how to book and report crypto transactions in your company’s income statement and balance sheet.
Turns out, the bet was right.
Visa is in crypto. BlackRock is in crypto. PayPal, Stripe, all in. Stablecoins now move trillions a year, rivaling the payment rails your finance team uses every day.
In 2021, there were two tools for crypto bookkeeping (Cryptio, Bitwave). Today there are 20+ as listed in our tools directory.
2026 is the year the world goes onchain.
And that means The Accountant Quits becomes the Onchain Finance Institute (OCF Institute), the leading educational provider for finance teams adopting digital assets.
How we’re evolving
What started as a podcast is now the longest-running show on crypto accounting and finance with 106 episodes, and no sign of stopping. But we also evolved into a fully accredited educational and member-verified community platform.
Today at the OCF Institute, you can;
- Upskill with job-ready onchain accounting and finance training,
- Network during one of our IRL events and inside our community platform,
- Get hired in the digital assets industry through our scholarship program, securing remote roles at crypto accounting firms, or by participating in our growing network to stand out and land your next web3 opportunity.
Our Educational Approach
This is what we actually do. Essentially what we've always done.
Our students don't come to us because we convinced them crypto matters. Rather they enroll because their company already works with crypto assets or service clients, and now they need practical skills to apply at work, fast.
- How to implement a subledger,
- Bookkeep onchain transactions,
- Report crypto assets under GAAP.
We don't do theory. And we definitely don't do textbook knowledge that sounds impressive but helps nobody at the office.
Instead every instructor who teaches in our programs, the Crypto Accounting Academy and Crypto Treasury Management Academy, is a real-world practitioner. Someone currently working inside a web3 company or crypto accounting firm. In other workds, they speak the same language as our web3 curious/practicing students.
Hundreds of students have graduated from these courses alone. Respected professionals who work at leading web3 companies like Solana Foundation, BitGo, Ava Labs as well as top accounting firms like KPMG and RSM.
And now AI is part of it too
Cohort 9 of the Crypto Accounting Academy starts May 7th. Cohort 3 of the Crypto Treasury Management Academy follows shortly after. Both will integrate tools like Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT directly into the curriculum. Why? Because these tools are already reshaping accounting workflows, and pretending otherwise would be doing our students a disservice.
We're also CPE-accredited through NASBA and The CPD Group, ensuring that the certificates our students receive at the end of our cohorts are held to the highest possible standard, and so our curriculum is up-to-date with the evolving educational requirements of the digital assets space.
What about The Accountant Quits?
It stays as the podcast. Because the name was never about leaving accounting. It was a provocation. A dare.
Are you going to keep doing what you've always done, or are you going to upskill with AI and blockchain and actually stay relevant?
Anyone who's upskilled with digital assets knowledge has already answered that question.
They're The Accountant (that) Quits the status quo.
To all of you, we say: welcome to the OCF Institute.
The bet continues and see you inside the community.
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Umar Mallam Hassam
Umar is a Chartered Accountant who spent years as an external auditor at Deloitte and BDO before following his curiosity into the world of digital assets.
Today, he's the Founder of OCF Institute and Host of The Accountant Quits podcast, where he helps finance professionals make sense of onchain accounting and finance, and discover the career opportunities opening up inside companies working with digital assets.
Through in-person events and an online community, Umar also brings together the established voices and rising talent shaping the future of web3 finance.
