Messari is a crypto market intelligence and data analytics platform covering more than 40,000 digital assets with APIs, research tools, and AI-powered workflows, serving funds, exchanges, regulators, and developers. It was co-founded in 2018 by Ryan Selkis and Dan McArdle to address information asymmetry in the crypto market. Messari's Twitter Score is 696 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026.
Messari is now affiliated with Blockworks after being acquired in June 2026 for more than $10 million, a steep discount from its $300 million valuation set in 2022. Co-founder Ryan Selkis stepped down in July 2024 following politically charged tweets, transitioning to an advisor role, with CRO Eric Turner serving as interim CEO before Diran Li took over as CEO and repositioned the platform as an AI-first company. Messari provides an AI API with OpenAI-compatible chat completions and long-form research report generation backed by 40TB of crypto data from more than 500 sources, covering market data, on-chain metrics, token unlocks, fundraising data, and news. The platform also hosts the Mainnet summit, a major crypto industry conference.
Messari previously raised $21 million in a Series A led by Point72 Ventures in August 2021, Point72 Ventures' first investment in the crypto space, and $35 million in a Series B led by Brevan Howard Digital in September 2022 at a $300 million valuation, announced at the Mainnet summit that year. FTX Ventures also participated in the Series B just months before FTX filed for bankruptcy in November 2022. Earlier backers included Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Winklevoss Capital, and Alameda Research, among others.
Messari ranks #123 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform, with 802,321 followers as of July 2026 and 33,475 posts published. Its portfolio includes Filebase. The account has been mentioned by 2,852 accounts, with 7,671 total mentions.
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Messari draws a broad audience of crypto professionals. The accounts that follow Messari include 2,446 founders, 533 angel investors, 1,497 influencers and 246 VCs, among them Solana, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Toly, Ansem and 6529.