Messari was founded by Ryan Selkis and Dan McArdle, with subsequent leadership from Eric Turner and then Duran Aksoy.

According to Jason Yanowitz, AI agents are the fastest-growing customer segment for Messari's data products.

Blockworks' business model focuses on two primary customer segments: issuers of on-chain assets and underwriters of those assets, such as investors, regulators, and exchanges.

Over the last two years, Messari has successfully expanded its customer base from primarily investors to include enterprise clients.

The media and data company Blockworks has acquired the crypto data platform Messari.

According to Jason Yanowitz, companies like Stripe, BlackRock, and Robinhood are hindered from greater on-chain adoption by their inability to monitor assets, track users, and understand their on-chai...

The combined Blockworks and Messari entity aims to build a full stack for on-chain markets, consisting of a system of record, a trusted data layer, an API, a workflow layer, and a distribution layer.

Blockworks' core belief is that traditional financial assets like stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities will eventually be rebuilt on public blockchains.

Jason Yanowitz argues that AI-native information platforms can be built with significantly less headcount than legacy financial data businesses like S&P and Moody's because crypto data is inherently d...