BeInCrypto Institutional Research: 15 Market Intelligence & Data Platform Behind On-Chain Visibility

Best Market Intelligence & Data Platform is an award category within The BeInCrypto Institutional 100, an annual research-driven program recognising institutional digital asset excellence across 26 categories and six pillars. This category sits in Pillar 3: Access to Digital Assets. The 15 companies below are its longlist, drawn from data platforms serving institutional crypto intelligence workflows between April 2025 and March 2026. 

A shortlist will be named in May 2026, and the winner will be announced at Proof of Talk in Paris on June 2–3, 2026.

• Longlist: 15 companies covering regulated indices, on-chain dashboards, wallet labelling, protocol financials, DeFi TVL, research platforms, and hybrid market data APIs
• Candidates screened: Starting pool of more than 30 data and intelligence providers across the global institutional crypto stack; 15 advanced to this longlist
• Scoring (Track A): Editorial quantitative 50%, Advisory Council 50%
• Criteria assessed: Data coverage and depth, institutional adoption, product innovation, research quality, funding and maturity, market standing, independence
• Sources: Company disclosures, press releases, regulator filings, and private-market data platforms, including PitchBook, Tracxn, and Crunchbase

#	Company	Founded · HQ	Key People	Scale & Funding	Core Capability	Milestone
1	Kaiko	2014 · Paris	Ambre Soubiran (CEO)	$1B valuation; $79M raised15,000+ analysts in the network	Institutional market data, indices	Benchmark provider for CBOE, D2X, GeminiTokenized equities data partnership (2026)
2	Nansen	2019 · Singapore	Alex Svanevik (CEO)Evgeny Medvedev (Co-founder)	$88M+ raised; 170 employees500M+ labeled wallets across 30+ chains	On-chain analytics, wallet labeling	Nansen 2 AI platform launched$23B institutional liquidity report (2025)
3	Dune Analytics	2018 · Oslo	Fredrik Haga (CEO)Mats Olsen (Co-founder)	$1B valuation; $79M raised15,000+ analysts in network	SQL dashboards, on-chain analytics	smlXL acquisition (2024)Industry-standard query layer
4	Messari	2018 · New York	Ryan Selkis (CEO)Dan McArdle (Co-founder)	$61M raised; 137 employees170TB enterprise data coverage	Research, governance analytics	Crypto Theses 2026 publishedAI Copilot research tool launched
5	Glassnode	Zug, Switzerland	Leadership team	7,500+ on-chain metrics1,700+ assets covered	On-chain data, derivatives analytics	Expanded derivatives coverage (2025)Joint research with Coinbase Institutional
6	CCData (CryptoCompare)	2014 · London	Leadership team	FCA-regulated benchmark providerISO 27001 + SOC 2 certified	Market data, indices, benchmarks	Data feeds for Bloomberg and S&PETF and ETP benchmark provider
7	Coin Metrics	2017 · Boston	Talos (parent company)	Acquired by Talos (2025)$100M+ deal value	Network data, indexing, feeds	Talos integration across execution stackBletchley Index institutional benchmark
8	CoinGecko	2014 · Singapore / KL	TM Lee (Co-founder)Bobby Ong (Co-founder)	Independent data aggregatorMillions of monthly users	Market data aggregation, API	GeckoTerminal for DEX pricingWidely used independent pricing source
9	Arkham Intelligence	2020 · United States	Miguel Morel (CEO)	500M+ labeled walletsBinance Labs-backed	Entity-labeled blockchain intelligence	Identified $25B US gov holdingsIntel Exchange bounty model
10	DeFiLlama	2020 · Open-source	0xngmi (lead)Charlie Watkins (Co-founder)	7,000+ protocols tracked$150B+ DeFi TVL coverage	DeFi analytics, TVL aggregation	Standard TVL reference across industryTransparent methodology adoption
11	Amberdata	2017 · Miami	Shawn Douglass (CEO)TongTong Gong (COO)	$47M+ raisedBacked by Franklin Templeton, Nasdaq	Hybrid on-chain + market data API	AI-driven Amberdata Intelligence (2025)Unified institutional data platform
12	Token Terminal	2019 · Helsinki	Henri Hyvärinen (Co-founder)Aleksis Tapper (Co-founder)	Institutional subscription modelProtocol financial datasets	Protocol financials, valuation metrics	Standardized crypto financial statementsWidely used in allocator reports
13	Artemis Analytics	2022 · United States	Jon Ma (Co-founder)Michael Nadeau (Co-founder)	Early-stage institutional platformVenture-backed	Cross-chain fundamentals, metrics	Comparative blockchain dashboardsInstitutional research workflows
14	IntoTheBlock	2018 · New York	Jesus Rodriguez (CEO)	Institutional client baseML analytics platform	On-chain signals, DeFi risk	DeFi risk analytics for institutionsPerseus enterprise analytics platform
15	Flipside Crypto	2017 · Boston	Dave Balter (CEO)	$50M+ raisedCommunity-driven model	Analytics, ecosystem data bounties	Community analyst network insightsEcosystem data across L1s and L2s

About This List

The BeInCrypto Institutional 100 — Market Intelligence & Data (2026 Long List) identifies the platforms providing data infrastructure for institutional crypto workflows. These firms supply benchmarks, analytics, research, and APIs used across trading desks, asset managers, and protocol teams.

Methodology

This category evaluates market intelligence and data platforms under Track A of the BIC 100 methodology: 50% quantitative metrics and 50% Advisory Council scoring.

Assessment spans seven criteria: data coverage and depth, institutional adoption, product innovation, research quality, funding maturity, market standing, and independence.

Data was verified using company disclosures, press releases, regulatory filings, and private-market sources, including PitchBook, Tracxn, and Crunchbase. Figures reflect the most recent available data at publication.