Blockworks has acquired Messari, marking the company’s first major move after raising new funding to consolidate crypto’s fragmented data and information sector.
The deal brings together two of the best-known names in crypto research and market intelligence. Blockworks has expanded from media and events to data, investor relations, disclosures and institutional tools, while Messari has built one of the broadest crypto asset data platforms in the industry.
Messari provides coverage for over 40,000 assets, including data on markets, exchanges, protocols, stablecoins, token unlocks, fundraising, research, news, social sentiment, and event monitoring. The API is used by funds, exchanges, developers and increasingly AI-driven workflows.
Blockworks said the acquisition will help create a single system of record for onchain assets as crypto becomes more institutionalized and regulated.
The company plans to serve two sides of the market: issuers of onchain assets and the investors, exchanges, regulators, platforms and AI agents that underwrite or monitor them.
For issuers, this means tools for standardized disclosures, investor relations, ratings, research and market communications. For insurers, this means deeper data, APIs, diligence tools, monitoring systems and automated workflows.
The deal also reflects a broader shift in crypto infrastructure. As stablecoins, tokenized assets, prediction markets, and onchain finance mature, companies are rushing to build the data rails that institutions and AI agents will need to evaluate and act on assets.
Blockworks said Messari’s data layer will become a core part of that strategy, combining proprietary data, issuer disclosures, onchain activity, market intelligence and AI.
The acquisition follows Blockworks’ recent Series A expansion at a $192 million valuation. The company said at the time that it planned to use the funding to accelerate its push into crypto data and institutional software.