Blockworks Acquires Messari in Bid to Build a Unified Data Platform

The acquisition was announced on Thursday and follows Blockworks’ recent Series A extension, which valued the company at $192 million. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition combines Blockworks’ investor relations and disclosure tools with Messari’s crypto data and research platform. Messari tracks more than 40,000 digital assets and provides data, research, market intelligence, fundraising information, token unlock data, and protocol analytics used by investors, exchanges, developers, and financial institutions.

Together, the companies aim to become a leading source of information for onchain capital markets. The move comes as the digital asset industry continues to grow, while data, and market information remain spread across multiple platforms.

The acquisition is part of a broader effort to build information infrastructure for the crypto industry, similar to what Bloomberg, FactSet, Moody’s, and S&P Global provide for traditional financial markets. While traditional markets rely on standardized data, disclosures, ratings, and benchmarks, the crypto industry has lacked a single, unified information system.

Blockworks has focused on providing research, data and investor relations services for digital asset companies. Its Token Transparency Framework helps standardize disclosures and improve transparency for crypto projects and token issuers.

Messari has grown into one of the largest independent providers of crypto data and market intelligence. Its products are widely used by hedge funds, exchanges, custodians, fintech firms, regulators and developers looking for reliable information on digital assets, and blockchain networks.

The acquisition also highlights the growing role of artificial intelligence in financial services. As AI-powered research and analysis tools become more common, demand for structured, real-time crypto data continues to increase.

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For existing Messari customers, both companies said current products and services will continue without disruption as the two platforms are integrated. In the near term, the combined company plans to expand data coverage, improve API services, enhance investor relations tools, strengthen compliance and monitoring features, and develop new research and ratings products.

“AI makes this opportunity larger, not smaller,” Yanowitz said. “As markets move onchain, the winning platform will combine trusted data, issuer provided disclosures, onchain activity, market intelligence and AI native workflows.”

Messari Chief Executive Officer Diran Li said the two companies share a common focus on improving transparency and trust across digital asset markets.

“Coming together allows us to pursue that shared vision more efficiently and build a stronger platform for the customers, investors, and institutions moving on-chain,” Li said.

Blockworks said the combined platform will serve both sides of the market: organizations issuing and managing digital assets and the investors, exchanges, regulators, and service providers that rely on accurate market intelligence and disclosures.

“This acquisition connects the two sides of the market,” said Jason Yanowitz, co-founder of Blockworks. “Issuers maintain a trusted record of their business, and investors, exchanges, regulators, and investors consume that record through research, APIs, and automated workflows.”

About Blockworks

Founded in 2018, Blockworks is a company focused on connecting investors and businesses in the digital asset and onchain markets. Its goal is to build trust in the industry by helping companies improve transparency and giving investors access to reliable information. The company offers an onchain data platform, Blockworks Investor Relations, and the Token Transparency Framework. Headquartered in New York City, Blockworks employs nearly 100 people across more than a dozen countries.

About Messari

Messari is a crypto data and market intelligence platform that provides research, APIs, and a wide range of market, and protocol data. This includes asset coverage, token unlocks, fundraising data, event tracking, watchlists, and AI tools for crypto market participants. The platform covers more than 40,000 crypto assets and is widely used by hedge funds, exchanges, developers, internal product teams and increasingly AI-powered systems and agents.

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