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In January, the oracle provider RedStone picked up Security Token Market along with a dataset spanning more than 800 tokenized
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The reason this is more important than ordinary media consolidation is what institutions need before they can scale into digital assets.
Key facts
- The Wall Street Journal put the price above $10 million, a steep markdown from the roughly $300 million valuation Messari carried after its 2022 Series B, and that discount tells you how much
- To November 2025, Institute's annual trends report, with US referrals down 38% and European referrals down 17%, while referrals from Google Discover dropped 21%
- Bloomberg reached that final stage decades ago, which is why it earns somewhere around $11 billion a year, charges close to $31,980 for a single terminal seat in 2026, and keeps more than 325,000
- CryptoSlate's own reporting has tracked corporate AI adoption climbing from 8.7% in 2023 to 14.2% in 2024 and 20.2% in 2025 on OECD figures, and the agents doing the consuming are beginning
Summary
01 Blockworks acquired Messari on June 12, combining two major crypto data and research firms into one platform. 02 The deal matters because crypto media is shifting from articles to datasets, feeds, terminals, and API-driven institutional products. 03 The unresolved risk is that whoever owns canonical crypto data can shape what investors, regulators, exchanges, and AI models treat as ground truth. Artificial intelligence is commoditizing news and routine research across the industry, and it's pushing crypto media companies to rebuild themselves as data platforms, analytics providers, and institutional infrastructure. On June 12, Blockworks acquired Messari, folding two of the largest data and research operations in crypto into a single platform covering more than 40,000 digital assets.