Moralis

Moralis is a Web3 data infrastructure company that provides enterprise-grade APIs allowing developers and businesses to access blockchain data without building or maintaining their own nodes, indexers, or data pipelines. Founded in 2021 in Stockholm, Sweden by Ivan Liljeqvist (CEO) and Filip Martinsson (COO), the company has grown into one of the most widely deployed blockchain data platforms in the industry, processing more than two billion API requests per month across 50+ supported networks.

From Web3 Backend to Data Infrastructure

Moralis launched at a moment when building decentralized applications required developers to solve the same infrastructure problems repeatedly — running nodes, decoding raw on-chain data, normalizing schemas across chains, and building reliable event monitoring. The company positioned itself as the backend layer that abstracts this complexity, offering a single integration point for multi-chain data access.

The platform has since matured beyond simple RPC abstraction into a comprehensive onchain data layer. Moralis today bundles four product lines that serve distinct stages of an application's data lifecycle: on-demand querying through its Data API suite, real-time event monitoring through Streams, large-scale historical data export through Datashare, and custom enterprise indexing through its Data Indexer product.

Core API Suite

The Moralis Data API is divided into six specialized modules, each targeting a different class of blockchain data:

Wallet API retrieves balances, transaction histories, NFT holdings, and cross-chain activity for any wallet address. It delivers decoded, human-readable transaction history rather than raw calldata, making it well-suited for wallet applications that need to display meaningful activity timelines.

Token API covers ERC-20 and SPL token balances, transfers, metadata, and liquidity statistics. It includes trader analytics such as profitability metrics and token holder distributions, serving analytics dashboards and trading platforms that need structured token intelligence.

NFT API provides ownership records, metadata, collection data, and transfer history at scale. It supports standard NFTs alongside compressed NFTs (cNFTs) and semi-fungible tokens (SFTs), covering the expanding range of token standards in active use.

Blockchain API exposes raw chain data — blocks, transactions, and event logs — with cross-chain compatibility through a unified query interface, avoiding the need to maintain chain-specific client libraries.

Price API delivers real-time and historical cryptocurrency prices, including OHLCV candlestick timeseries data compatible with TradingView integrations. It aggregates price data from leading decentralized exchanges across supported chains.

DeFi API queries protocol-level data including liquidity pools, user positions, yield rates, and total value locked, enabling DeFi dashboards and risk tools to pull structured data without custom subgraphs or indexer deployments.

Real-Time and Bulk Data Products

Beyond on-demand queries, Moralis offers Streams, a webhook-based event monitoring system that pushes real-time notifications when specified onchain events occur. Applications can subscribe to wallet activity, token transfers, smart contract events, or custom triggers. Streams delivers guaranteed event delivery, removing the need for applications to continuously poll the chain or maintain their own listeners.

Datashare addresses the bulk data use case — analytics pipelines, machine learning datasets, compliance workflows, and business intelligence reports — by exporting historical and ongoing onchain data directly into cloud storage or warehouse systems such as Snowflake, BigQuery, and AWS S3.

The Data Indexer product provides enterprises with custom indexing capability: fully configurable data schemas, real-time pipelines, and rapid historical backfills across supported chains, for organizations with data requirements that go beyond what the standard API endpoints address.

Solana Coverage

Moralis added dedicated Solana API support as the network gained adoption across NFTs, DeFi, and consumer applications. The Solana API covers all major data categories:

On the token side, Moralis provides SPL token prices — including real-time quotes sourced from Raydium, Meteora, Orca, and Pump.fun — alongside transfer histories, wallet balances, PnL metrics, trader analytics, and token pair liquidity statistics. Token search functionality allows applications to discover and filter SPL tokens by name, symbol, or contract address.

The NFT API for Solana handles standard NFTs, compressed NFTs (cNFTs), and semi-fungible tokens (SFTs), with endpoints for fetching NFT balances by wallet address, metadata retrieval, and collection-level data.

Wallet analytics on Solana include portfolio tracking, SPL token and NFT holdings with enriched metadata, wallet profitability metrics, and smart money movement analysis — useful for tools tracking whale behavior or large-holder activity.

The wallet-sniping endpoint allows applications to track wallets active in specific Solana token pairs, a capability used in trading analytics, copy-trading platforms, and market intelligence tools.

Scale, Customers, and Trust

Moralis serves tens of thousands of Web3 projects and powers more than 100 million end users through its customers' applications. Notable customers include MetaMask, Ledger, Blockchain.com, Ronin Wallet, Trust Wallet, and Exodus, spanning leading wallets and financial infrastructure products in the industry.

The company holds SOC 2 Type II certification and ISO 27001 compliance, addressing enterprise procurement requirements around data security and operational controls. Enterprise tiers include custom throughput limits, committed use discounts, white-glove onboarding, and 24/7 engineering access.

The platform claims a cost advantage of approximately 50% compared to equivalent in-house infrastructure — a positioning that resonates with product teams that would otherwise need dedicated blockchain engineering to maintain multi-chain data pipelines.

Funding and Company

Moralis raised a seed round of €11.5 million in October 2021, followed by a $40 million Series A in May 2022, bringing total disclosed funding to roughly $53.4 million. Investors across the rounds include EQT Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Dispersion Capital, and Morningstar Ventures. The company operates as a remote-first organization with approximately 67 employees across six continents, based out of Stockholm.

The original moralis.io domain now redirects to moralis.com, where the company's current developer portal, documentation, and API reference are hosted.

Position in the Developer Stack

Moralis occupies the data layer of the Web3 application stack — the component that converts raw on-chain state into application-ready data structures. It competes with platforms such as QuickNode, Alchemy, and The Graph but differentiates on cross-chain unification, the breadth of decoded data types (particularly around wallets and NFTs), and enterprise compliance posture. Its API-first, multi-chain model allows development teams to ship applications across EVM chains and Solana from a single backend integration, rather than maintaining separate clients and indexing solutions per network.

For Solana builders specifically, Moralis provides a production-ready data layer that covers the core data needs of wallet applications, token analytics platforms, NFT marketplaces, and DeFi dashboards — without requiring dedicated infrastructure beyond an API key and a supported tier plan.