We're promoting transparency and smarter decision-making within the cryptoasset community. We're building an open data library and curation tools that help researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the industry.
We're a team of full-time cryptoasset researchers and investors, hailing from top financial services firms, technology startups, and crypto brands. Join us!
Ryan Selkis, CEO & Co-founder
Ryan has been an active entrepreneur, investor, and analyst within the crypto community since 2013. Prior to founding Messari, he was an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys, and founding team member at Digital Currency Group and CoinDesk.
Dan McArdle, CTO & Co-founder
Dan has co-founded multiple companies including the Digital Currency Council and Volara Voice. With a background in computer science and economics, he has been investing in bitcoin and the cryptoasset space since 2011.
Our global investor base will help us standardize cryptoasset data and project disclosures across jurisdictions.
Garry Tan
Initialized Capital
Kyle Samani
Multicoin Capital
Matthew Roszak
Bloq
Meltem Demirors
Athena Capital
Pamir Gelenbe
Libertus Capital
Token Curated Registries with Ryan Selkis
Key highlights from Ryan's Token Curated Registries talk at PillarVC's (Off) The Chain Summit watch >>
A token to self-regulate tokens. But really.
"After six months of thinking through issues surrounding data transparency and disclosure standards in crypto, I've arrived at a counter-intuitive conclusion: Self-regulating the token economy may require…a token." more >>
Messari at Token Summit II (video)
Presentation by Ryan Selkis on Messari, followed by a fireside chat with William Mougayar. Covering blockchain governance, compliance and regulation of Token sales. watch >>
"So I'm excited to announce my newest project, Messari, a distributed crypto data library that I hope will turn into this industry's EDGAR database. Messari will some day act as equal parts investor portal, self-regulator, peer-review system, and directory for cryptoassets." more >>
Laura Shin's Unconfirmed Podcast
"From the Multicoin Summit: Ryan Selkis of Messari on How to Fund Sustainable Journalism - Ep.015" more >>
"Some envision an apocalyptic battle between cryptocurrencies and regulators, others foresee blockchain innovations becoming too powerful to be tamed. But Ryan Selkis, widely known by his Twitter moniker TwoBitIdiot, isn't devoted to either one of these futures..." more >>
"Brian Kelly of BKCM talks about token-curated registries, such as the proposal for Messari, by Ryan Selkis, formerly of Digital Currency Group and CoinDesk, and why such TCRs are probably a good idea, but what pitfalls they may face." more >>
"Named after the Italian merchants who invented double entry accounting (nice one Ryan!), Messari aims to become the open-source database for cryptoassets." more >>
Contributing to the Messari data library signals an ethos of transparency and makes it easier for people to learn about your project.
We're looking for research analysts, academics, and data services partners to help us build our data library and curate cryptoasset content.
Who enforces open standards? We hope major exchanges, advisors, and funds will promote Messari's transparency standards.