
co-founder @blockworks // host @theempirepod
New York
Joined January 2013
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1/ Today we announce our acquisition of Messari.
Our mission is to bring trust and transparency to onchain markets.
This acquisition accelerates that mission.
This role will change someone's life
Stoked to kickoff our partnership with Gemini.
More to come.
NEW: Now tracking @Gemini's prediction markets, with over 329M contracts traded across more than 2.5M trades since December.
Gemini's new dashboards cover trading volume, open interest, trade behavior, listings, and market concentration, with dedicated boards for Sports, Asset Prices, and Politics.
Yano 🟪 retweeted
We just sent the SEC our comment letter on Regulation Crypto Assets.
Our goal is to give every token one current, public record to make onchain compliance cheaper and faster.
Our asks:
1) Let projects file disclosures through Qualified Onchain Disclosure Agents
2) Let third parties file on behalf of projects
It's time we protect investors so we can protect this industry.
cdn.blockworks.com/s/assets/…
inside blockworks rn
I don't know what to say on the valuation of frontier models or bottleneck trades, but a productivity boom from AI is absolutely happening its just a matter of how setup the business is for it and how skilled the users are which is likely causing a dispersion in teh data.
Internally at @Blockworks we've hit a genuinely absurd acceleration in productivity in recent months, it's insane.
We live in the future.
Anyone saying otherwise I'm just going to attribute it to a skill issue.
Yano 🟪 retweeted
Blockworks is asking the SEC to require token projects to disclose token loans, market-maker agreements and payments to influencers under the agency's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, according to the company's description of its comment letter.
unchainedcrypto.com/blockwor…
Yano 🟪 retweeted
Huge. Blockworks is doing it right here.
This might sound boring to most of you onchain degens, but it could end up being one of the most important initiatives happening in crypto right now.
Blockworks is building SEC-aligned disclosure standards for tokens. and that single thing could improve the investability of this entire industry by orders of magnitude.
this is exactly what institutional allocators want to see before they bring their tens of trillions onchain. no serious capital shows up without proper disclosure, compliance and trust.
it's that simple.
while everyone else chases the next pump, @JasonYanowitz, @MikeIppolito_ and the Blockworks team are quietly building the infrastructure that actually unlocks exactly that.
it's this kind of trust building that will make them the Bloomberg of crypto over time.
if you genuinely care about where this industry is going, support this and spread the word.
TTFs for the win.
Blockworks data everywhere
(also aerodrome is cooking)
Since September the $AERO share of spot RWA volume (green) has been inching closer and closer to parity with the $UNI share (blue). ty @Blockworks for graph
This is before they deploy on mainnet, RH chain, Arbitrum, Elysium (?👀?) etc...
Not extremely hard to see where this trend is heading.
We just sent the SEC our comment letter on Regulation Crypto Assets.
Our goal is to give every token one current, public record to make onchain compliance cheaper and faster.
Our asks:
1) Let projects file disclosures through Qualified Onchain Disclosure Agents
2) Let third parties file on behalf of projects
It's time we protect investors so we can protect this industry.
cdn.blockworks.com/s/assets/…
Goal was to see if IRL Dempsey is as thoughtful as he is online.
This was the widest ranging Empire podcast in awhile… @mhdempsey did not disappoint.
> will the labs eat everything
> will SaaS survive
> romanticizing tech
> how to hold cash
> venture
Blockworks data: imagine the possibilities
get personalized intel on your wallet holdings
learn something new about your assets with blockworks data. Solana and EVM supported.
try it here: walletintel.fyi/
Seeing this makes me realize how behind every exchange is when it comes to data
Exchanges, help me help you
Imagine the possibilities
DAY 2 OF BUILDING A TERMINAL
Execution powered by Hyperliquid, the onchain exchange layer.
Data and analytics powered by Blockworks, the onchain market intelligence layer.
Combined = the deepest data and execution in the market.
Our MCP is so goated this isn't even a real launch btw. It's just me (mostly claude) using it to vibecode the terminal I've always wanted.
Go out and build your own empires!!!
Blockworks… you’re not thinking big enough
Day 1 of imagining @Blockworks with Hyperliquid builder codes.
Makes no sense that exchanges show only price data when fundamentals are equally, if not more important for putting on a trade. I need:
-Advanced screening: fundamentals, monitoring, protocol updates and unlocks, instead of screening by price for things that already moved
-Fundamental indicators: From simple features like plotting multiples alongside price to bespoke multi-asset views (e.g. revenue/price divergence vs. peers, unlocks vs. buyback yield)
-Comprehensive data: business metrics (users, revenue, competitive landscape), token disclosures and unlocks
Imagine being able to do everything on one interface: screening assets, understanding, tracking and monitoring them, then trading them.
I wanted to see if it’s possible, so I built a prototype with the Blockworks MCP. I’ve been AI-pilled for a while, but watching it one-shot an exchange was insane.
There are empires waiting to be built.
Added some new data to our API/MCP:
1. Granular lending data (balances, flows, rates, liquidations, financials for 5,924 markets)
2. RWA spot DEX volume by chain, DEX, issuer & category
3. 17,882 tokens labelled by issuer and type
4. Deeper data on where tokens actually sit
Have fun.
Work of art
Backpack now has a pretty complete dashboard on Blockworks
it’s now much easier to find data on the tokenized assets issued by Backpack on Solana
> total supply and distribution by asset
→ holders by product
→ Spot DEX activity and volume
→ each asset’s share of the total
some numbers really caught my attention 👇
→ $28.4M in circulating supply across all assets
→ 391,815 holders across the different tokenized assets, a ~30x increase since July, when there were around 13,100
→ $1.75B in Spot DEX volume over the last 30 days
→ SPCX alone represents 25.5% of the supply, with around $7.8M




























