Blockworks

Blockworks is a New York City-based crypto data, media, and market-infrastructure company that serves institutional investors, onchain builders, and informed retail participants by providing the news, analytics, and disclosure tools needed to navigate digital asset markets.

Founded in 2018 by Jason Yanowitz and Michael Ippolito, the company began as an events business connecting institutional capital with the blockchain industry. It has since grown into a multi-line operation spanning breaking news, a podcast network, curated newsletters, proprietary on-chain data analytics, an investor-relations (IR) platform, and an open disclosure standard for token issuers. As of mid-2026 the company employs roughly 160 people and projects revenues exceeding $30 million for 2025, having been profitable every year but one since its founding.

Media and Content

Blockworks' highest-reach product is its editorial output. Blockworks.com publishes daily news on crypto markets, DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, regulatory developments, and institutional adoption, competing with CoinDesk and The Block for institutional mindshare. Coverage leans toward market structure, capital flows, and protocol fundamentals.

The newsletter suite addresses several distinct audiences. Empire covers the big-picture narratives shaping crypto markets. 0xResearch delivers on-chain analysis and protocol-level alpha. The Breakdown provides daily macro-crypto context. Lightspeed focuses exclusively on the Solana ecosystem, one of the few dedicated, institutionally oriented editorial products covering Solana.

The podcast network is, by downloads, the largest in crypto with approximately 21 million downloads per year, sustained without paid marketing. Key shows include Empire (co-hosted by Yanowitz and investor Santiago Santos), The Breakdown, and series focused on Bitcoin, modular blockchain design, and macro investing. In 2024 Blockworks acquired The Drop, an NFT-focused media property, expanding the network further.

Events

The Digital Asset Summit (DAS) is Blockworks' flagship conference format, assembling policymakers, asset managers, financial institutions, and builders around the intersection of crypto and traditional finance. DAS has grown into one of the most-cited institutional crypto gatherings. The series now runs internationally: DAS London is scheduled for November 2026 at Hilton Park Lane, and DAS Asia for October 2026 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Research

Blockworks Research, launched in 2022, publishes in-depth reports, protocol governance analyses, and institutional commentary across DeFi, layer-1 and layer-2 networks, and emerging categories such as real-world assets. The research unit is described as the company's fastest-growing business segment.

Data Platform

Blockworks has built substantial proprietary data infrastructure. Its Analytics 2.0 platform ingests data from 82 or more distinct sources across 100 or more pipelines, handling more than 2.1 trillion rows. The platform powers over 2,600 visualizations and 280 dashboards used by approximately 145 companies. Beyond on-chain data, the warehouse incorporates off-chain datasets covering ETFs, fundraising rounds, M&A activity, and centralized exchange flows.

The Blockworks Data API, available at $4,500 per year, exposes this warehouse externally with 378 or more metrics at launch. Co-founder Yanowitz has argued that many widely used crypto metrics, including total value locked, are structurally unreliable, and positions Blockworks' dataset around practical financial and user-activity signals oriented toward institutional due diligence.

Investor Relations Platform

Launched in March 2026 in partnership with the Solana Foundation, Blockworks IR is a full-stack investor-relations platform for onchain protocols and token issuers. The platform offers branded investor portals, analytics dashboards, report generation, and stakeholder engagement tools, adapting the IR model from public equities to the onchain context. Initial live participants include Solana, BNB Chain, and Jito.

Token Transparency Framework

Blockworks introduced the Token Transparency Framework (TTF) in June 2025, an open-source disclosure standard for digital assets. The TTF defines two filing types: the B-1, a one-time disclosure filed around a token generation event (conceptually analogous to an S-1 in public markets), and the B-2, a continuously updated filing for mature protocols. The framework evaluates issuers across 18 criteria covering token supply, allocation, and governance. Blockworks presented the TTF to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and received their support; the framework has since attracted discussion among exchanges and financial institutions as a potential integration standard.

By mid-2026, 44 protocols had completed TTF filings, with Blockworks targeting 200 or more by year-end. The company subsequently launched the Transparency Alliance, an industry coalition backing the TTF, with a founding cohort drawn from major exchanges, custodians, market makers, venture funds, launch platforms, and stablecoin issuers.

Funding

Blockworks raised a $12 million Series A in May 2023 led by 10T Holdings at a $135 million valuation. It subsequently closed a Series A extension at a $192 million valuation, co-led by ParaFi Capital and Reciprocal Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and more than 20 customer-founders from major crypto projects. Annual recurring revenue grew more than 500% in the preceding year. The company has stated its intent to use additional capital to acquire competitors and expand its data footprint.

Solana Ecosystem Role

Blockworks has a close relationship with the Solana ecosystem. The Lightspeed newsletter provides dedicated editorial coverage of Solana's development, infrastructure, and institutional narrative, including Firedancer client development, ETF discussions, and conference reporting such as Solana Accelerate. Blockworks IR launched with Solana as its founding institutional partner and the Solana Foundation as a key collaborator. The company has been an active chronicler of Solana's growth from a developer-centric chain to an institutional-grade platform, giving it an outsized role in shaping how professional investors understand and evaluate the network.