It was an absolute honor to work at Messari for 2 years. One of the densest talent hubs in crypto at it's peak, the Messari Mafia speaks for itself. Bullish on the future of research data, Blockworks now has all the tools they need to crush it.

tech people trying to politely untangle the logic of democrats today, explaining how wealth is really held, produced, and all the good the industry is doing as if people like sanders or mamdani or kanna care — they don’t. they just want your shit. please understand this already.

Blockworks has acquired Messari. Blockworks and Messari grew up together: we were actually founded within 90 days of each other in 2018. We’ve enjoyed a fierce competition and rivalry over the years, and in many ways this feels like a homecoming. Can't say this loudly enough but we have a tremendous amount of respect for the team and business. Messari helped pioneer the concept of standardized data and fundamental decision making in crypto, and we're excited to embark on this next chapter. This acquisition will help us fulfill our mission of building trust in onchain markets through disclosures, standardized data, and enterprise workflows. Zooming out, this is an exciting moment for Blockworks but it also comes at a difficult point for the industry. Investors have lost trust in crypto, and if we don’t build it back, there’s no guarantee that we’ll get the future that we all want. Yano and I fully believe that this is a moment in time: we as an industry can choose our own adventure. We can take the easy route and relapse into unregulated penny stock trading, or we can build the future of nonsovereign money and global finance that got many of us into this industry. I know what choice we’re making, let's get after it.

1/ Today we announce our acquisition of Messari. Our mission is to bring trust and transparency to onchain markets. This acquisition accelerates that mission.

1/ Blockworks has acquired Messari. We’re bringing together crypto’s two largest data and market intelligence platforms.

The crypto-data provider Blockworks paid more than $10 million for rival Messari, valued at around $300 million in 2022 on.wsj.com/4v6443Y

Private banking is about to get a whole new meaning. Bald man doesn’t miss.

encrypt the markets zolana

Big Solana news: The Light Protocol team is joining Helius to help build Solana's most complete ZK privacy layer. Private payments, markets, and finance -- at Solana scale. Fully composable, fully onchain, fully open-source.

Big <encrypted> news from @helius and @LightProtocol ZK and privacy on Solana are accelerating

The Clarity Act passed committee. The floor is next. We did not come this far to quit at the 5 yard line.

I've been bearish on L1 / L2 tokens for a long time. But the only one I could see potentially justifying the valuation and coming back from here is $SOL. Figured, I'd share my POV given I have the unique vantage point of someone who spent ~5 years as part of the @solana team and now manages a liquid fund that holds no $SOL atm. My best guess at what the triggers for the @solana / $SOL comeback story are laid out below. No guarantees the triggers happen, but if they do, I think $SOL could [for a third time] run it back turbo. --------------- 1/ Solana facilitates many of the apps and tokens with strong price action in 2026. --- @Collector_Crypt and $CARDS is already one and I suspect the run will continue. Crazy business --- I have a strong hunch for what the next breakout will be, but not going to say more atm. Let's just say, the memecoin casino brought the retail energy back to Solana in 2023/2024. I think we will see history rhyme and that casinos of various flavors could bring retail back to Solana 2/ Solana continues to take share from CEXs as the best place for spot trading --- What's been happening with @sunrisedefi and stuff like: x.com/vibhu/status/206292475… is underrated atm --- Solana is increasingly a great spot venue for tokens of all kinds and if the network can continue growing RWA volumes as well, even better --- @MetaDAOProject and ownership coins are also a very interesting spot asset ecosystem (of seed stage startups) 3/ One or more perps platform on Solana also gain relevance --- Whether it's @PhoenixTrade or some other platform I am not sure, but some platform has to make Solana relevant in the most important line of business in crypto --- I think this is the most uncertain of my triggers 4/ 1 2 3 above also translate into increases in network fees / REV --- it's not good enough for Solana to be home for financial activity. The network also needs to prove it can monetize that activity. I am highly confident in 1 and 2 happening. Medium confidence in 4. Least confidence in 3 --------------- If we see the above happening, I think the narrative will turn. Solana will be once again be seen as the L1 with a credible shot at the biggest vision of "house of finance" because it is also making progress in payments and various institutional efforts.

Now tracking Solana's competitive positioning for spot volume on majors. Not only does this track spot volume to CEXs, but also spot volume across other major blockchains. Yesterday, Solana settled around $161m of HYPE-USD volume, trailing only Bybit, HyperEVM, and HyperCore.

some confused folks think I left SOL because I talk about not one but *two* coins now reminder: we run the no 1. validator, no 1. trading infra, no 1. dev platform, RPCs, & soon the no. 1 privacy protocol - on Solana the *only* Solana exclusive leading provider pls. trillions.

97% of all tokenized stock trading last month happened on Solana. A month of records across real-world assets, stablecoins, perps, and collectibles. Here are a few figures that mattered:

solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 is either undervalued or the market is expecting @solana's REV to drop to 2023 levels.

gonna start bidding solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 here again (spot) seeing signs of life, now just need fuel