Blockworks has acquired Messari, marking the company’s first major move after raising new funds 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 industry’s largest data platforms for crypto assets.
Messari covers over 40,000 assets, including data on markets, exchanges, protocols, stablecoins, token unlocking, fundraising, research, news, social sentiment, and event monitoring. Its API is used by increasingly AI-driven funds, exchanges, developers and workflows.
Blockworks said the acquisition would help create a single system of record for on-chain assets as crypto becomes more institutionalized and regulated.
The company plans to serve two sides of the market: on-chain asset issuances and the investors, exchanges, regulators, platforms and AI agents who underwrite or monitor them.
For issues, this means tools for standardized information, investor relations, ratings, research and market communication. For underwriters, 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 on-chain finance mature, companies are racing to build the data rails that institutions and AI agents will need to evaluate assets and act accordingly.
Blockworks said Messari’s data layer will become a critical part of this strategy, combining proprietary data, issuer disclosures, on-chain activity, market intelligence and AI.
The acquisition follows Blockworks’ recent Series A expansion, valued at $192 million. The company said at the time that it planned to use the funding to accelerate its push into crypto data and institutional software.
