# Messari

> Where institutions go to understand crypto

Messari is a crypto market intelligence company. It provides data, research, and analytics tools used by investors, exchanges, and other institutions to evaluate onchain assets.

Messari is a crypto market intelligence company that provides research, data, and analytics tools covering a large range of digital assets. It serves investors, exchanges, asset issuers, and other institutions seeking to discover, evaluate, and monitor onchain markets. Its offerings span on-chain network data, governance information, and market data drawn together into a single research and analytics environment.

The platform addresses the fragmentation of crypto information by aggregating disclosures, pricing, and protocol data into standardized formats that support due diligence and ongoing monitoring. It works by combining proprietary research with structured datasets accessible through a web interface and an application programming interface, allowing users to track events such as protocol upgrades, governance votes, and token unlocks. The company has published attestations regarding its data security practices.

Core offerings include a research and intelligence platform, an application programming interface for developers and institutions, and enterprise and protocol services such as ecosystem portals and quarterly reporting. These are used by asset managers, exchanges, brokerages, regulators, and developers building products on top of onchain data. Messari has become part of a larger media and data organization following an acquisition, continuing to operate its research and data products under that ownership.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Data & Analytics
- Status: Acquired
- Founded: 2018-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/messari

## Products

- [Messari Intel](https://thegrid.id/profiles/messari): Messari Intel is a data terminal monitoring real-time crypto-related events such as releases, hacks, network upgrades, and regulatory actions. It surfaces human-curated summaries of onchain and offchain developments to give users timely alerts on relevant news. Analysts and researchers use it to track fast-moving events across multiple blockchains without executing trades. (Data Terminal, Live)
- [Messari AI Toolkit](https://thegrid.id/profiles/messari): Messari AI Toolkit is a set of developer APIs providing crypto-specific AI capabilities for building applications in the digital asset space. It offers an OpenAI-compatible chat completions interface backed by extensive crypto market data, research, and news, allowing developers to integrate source-grounded AI responses into their own products. The toolkit supports automated research, news summarization, and trend analysis, and is accessible on an early access basis. (Developer Tooling, Early access)
- [Messari API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/messari): Messari API is a pricing and market data API delivering standardized crypto data for developers and institutions. It provides real-time and historical asset prices, on-chain metrics for decentralized finance protocols, exchange volumes, token unlock schedules, and fundraising data through a unified interface. Trading firms, asset managers, compliance teams, and developers use it to build quantitative models, monitor portfolios, and power crypto applications. Related tools such as monitoring, screening, and watchlist features are accessed through the same underlying data platform rather than as separate offerings. (Pricing Data API, Live, Main Product)
- [Messari Research](https://thegrid.id/profiles/messari): Messari Research is a news and analysis publication covering cryptocurrency markets, protocols, and industry trends. It produces reports, project evaluations, and diligence coverage used by analysts and investors for due diligence and market context. Content is delivered through a dedicated research portal separate from the data API products. (News & Media, Live)
- [Messari Copilot](https://thegrid.id/profiles/messari): Messari Copilot is an AI assistant that answers crypto research and market questions for analysts and investors. It draws on structured market data, on-chain metrics, fundraising records, and curated research to generate source-grounded responses with citations. Users query it for fundamental research, price and volume analysis, and regulatory or compliance information rather than relying on general-purpose AI tools. (AI Agent, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://messari.io)
- [Blog](https://messari.io/research/research-and-protocols)
- [Documentation](https://docs.messari.io)
- [Terms of Service](https://messari.io/terms-of-service)
- [Privacy policy](https://messari.io/privacy-policy)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://messari.notion.site/Messari-Brand-Identity-12ad4d6b006e80c4902fc35879e8f37b)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/messaricrypto)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/messari)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/Messari)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/MessariCrypto)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/messari)

## Relationships

- [Blockworks](https://thegrid.id/profiles/blockworks): Parent organization

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