Blockworks acquired Messari for over $10M, far below its $300M 2022 peak, uniting crypto’s two largest data and intelligence platforms.
Blockworks has acquired Messari for more than $10 million.
The price is a sharp fall from the $300 million valuation Messari earned in 2022. Both companies launched in 2018 and spent years building crypto data infrastructure on opposite ends of the market.
Now they combine as what Blockworks describes as a complete system of record for onchain assets. The deal follows a Series A extension Blockworks raised to consolidate the fragmented crypto data sector.
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What the Messari Acquisition Brings to Blockworks
Messari spent eight years building data coverage for over 40,000 crypto assets. Its API covers assets, markets, exchanges, news, research, stablecoins, protocols, and networks. It also tracks token unlocks, fundraising, social sentiment, and event monitoring.
Funds pipe this data into internal systems. Exchanges use it for listing processes and compliance monitoring. Developers build products directly on top of it.
Blockworks focused on the issuer side.
Its Token Transparency Framework and IR platform gave protocols, foundations, and RWA issuers tools to manage disclosures and investor relations. The two companies built complementary infrastructure for opposite sides of the same market.
Messari’s API also powers a growing number of AI agents.
Blockworks noted in its announcement that an agent is only as good as the data it can reach. That framing positions Messari’s data layer as key infrastructure as agentic trading tools gain traction.
1/ Blockworks has acquired Messari.
We’re bringing together crypto’s two largest data and market intelligence platforms. pic.twitter.com/pw5f4I0oSU
— Blockworks (@Blockworks) June 12, 2026
Serving Both Sides of the Onchain Market
Blockworks now serves two distinct customer groups.
The first is asset issuers: protocols, chains, foundations, applications, stablecoin issuers, RWA issuers, and prediction markets. These businesses need to earn trust, disclose information, and manage investor relations.
The second group is asset underwriters. This covers investors, regulators, exchanges, custodians, fintechs, brokerages, and AI agents that analyze and list those assets.
Blockworks co-founders Jason Yanowitz and Michael said the combined platform creates infrastructure for standardized disclosures, investor relations, monitoring, compliance, ratings, and API access.
Yanowitz said the move accelerates the mission to bring transparency and trust to onchain markets as institutions come onchain.
Messari confirmed on X that nothing changes for existing users. Enterprise and API access continue without interruption.
Messari said customers will gain deeper data, stronger APIs, better monitoring and compliance workflows, and more complete IR tooling.
Messari has been acquired by Blockworks.
This brings together the two largest crypto data and market intelligence platforms to build the trusted information infrastructure onchain markets need as they mature.
— Messari (@MessariCrypto) June 12, 2026
AI Agents and What Comes Next for the Combined Platform
Blockworks laid out an AI-driven roadmap after the deal.
The company said the winning platform will combine proprietary data, issuer disclosures, onchain activity, and market intelligence. It aims to make markets easier to understand and easier to operate.
Legacy data businesses needed large analyst teams for ratings and research. Blockworks noted that crypto markets have a structural advantage.
The data is already digital, structured, and real-time, giving AI tools better raw material to work with.
Blockworks also pointed to a longer-term goal. As stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities move onchain, the company wants its platform to serve as the core infrastructure layer.
The Messari deal, according to Yanowitz and his co-founder, is the first major step in that direction.
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