# The Tie

> Command Digital Assets From One Terminal

The Tie is a crypto market intelligence and infrastructure company. It provides institutional investors with data, staking infrastructure, corporate access, and compliant communication services for digital assets.

The Tie is a company that provides information services and infrastructure for institutional participants in digital assets. Its core offering, the Tie Terminal, is a data platform that combines real-time news, sentiment analytics, spot and derivatives data, and on-chain metrics into a single workflow for investment decision making. The company serves hedge funds, asset managers, banks, trading venues, and other institutional market participants.

Beyond market intelligence, the company addresses several gaps in institutional crypto participation. It offers staking and infrastructure services that support non-custodial delegation across multiple networks, following the acquisition of a staking infrastructure provider. It also runs a corporate access and advisory program that connects protocols with institutional investors through events and curated meetings, alongside a compliant communication platform built for regulated crypto institutions.

The product portfolio spans the Tie Terminal and data APIs for market intelligence, staking and infrastructure solutions, and corporate access programs alongside a secure messaging platform. It is used by institutional investors, token issuers, and protocols seeking data, capital introductions, or secure infrastructure across the digital asset industry.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Data & Analytics
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2017-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Tie

## Products

- [The Tie Terminal](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Tie): The Tie Terminal is a data terminal that gives institutional users a single dashboard for digital asset market intelligence. It combines a customizable widget-based interface, an asset screener, real-time tagged news, a fundraising database, configurable alerting, and charting tools covering on-chain, sentiment, and financial metrics. An AI narrative engine and widget studio let users build custom analytics and track market themes across sources. It is used by institutional investors, traders, and researchers to monitor digital asset markets across multiple blockchains. (Data Terminal, Live, Main Product)
- [The Tie Data APIs](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Tie): The Tie Data APIs are a suite of pricing and market data APIs that deliver digital asset intelligence directly into client systems. The suite includes a sentiment API tracking social discussion by token, a news API with tagged and categorized coverage across thousands of sources, a token unlock API compiling vesting and supply-release data, and an on-chain API providing metrics such as users, transactions, fees, and value locked across multiple blockchains. Exchanges, trading firms, and enterprise platforms integrate these APIs to power systematic trading, research, and analytics products. (Pricing Data API, Live)
- [Bridge Messenger](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Tie): Bridge Messenger is a compliant messaging platform built for crypto institutions. Firms sign in through their company domain and complete a verification process to receive a checkmark confirming their identity, while all activity is archived for regulatory compliance. Admins manage team permissions, group chats, and transaction confirmations, and the platform surfaces market data and AI-assisted answers within conversations. It is designed for digital asset companies that need verified, auditable communication in place of general-purpose chat apps. (Messaging Protocol, Early access)
- [Corporate Access & Advisory](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Tie): Corporate Access & Advisory is an investor-relations and events program connecting digital asset protocols with institutional investors. It organizes flagship conferences, curated one-to-one meetings, dinners, and webinars where protocols present to institutions shaping the digital asset market. Ongoing visibility for participating protocols is maintained through connections with The Tie Terminal's institutional client base. Protocol teams use the program to build relationships that support funding, ecosystem growth, and other institutional engagement. (Events & Conferences, Live)
- [Staking and Infrastructure Solutions](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Tie): Staking and Infrastructure Solutions is a self-custodial staking service for institutional clients, operated through an acquisition of an existing staking provider. It runs validator infrastructure across a wide range of proof-of-stake blockchain networks, allowing clients to delegate assets and earn staking rewards without giving up custody. The service operates independently within the broader institutional platform and is aimed at institutions seeking secure staking infrastructure across multiple networks. (Staking & Validation Services, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.thetie.io)
- [Blog](https://www.thetie.io/insights)
- [Documentation](https://docs.thetie.io)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.thetie.io/legal/terms-of-use)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.thetie.io/legal/privacy-policy)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thetie)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/the-tie)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/thetieio)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/StakinOfficial)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/StakinOfficial)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stakin)

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