Blockworks Intel

What it is

Blockworks Intel, sold as Messari until its move to Blockworks, is a research terminal for crypto with an API bolted to every part of it. The terminal covers roughly 40,000 assets with prices, profiles and screeners; on top of that sit the things people actually renew for — 200-plus standardised diligence reports, a news feed aggregated from 500-plus sources with AI summaries, token unlock schedules, a fundraising and M&A database, Signals for social mindshare, and Monitoring, which surfaces 60-plus categories of event across 1,000-plus assets with a human check before it reaches you.

Blockworks acquired Messari in June 2026, and the product now carries Blockworks' name. Read on 23 October 2026, messari.io serves its pricing page as "Blockworks Intel Pricing", links its terms to blockworks.com, and carries a banner reading "Messari has moved to Blockworks" — same login, same subscription, saved work carried over — which says the old messari.io can be opened from account settings until 31 October 2026. The API went the same way: the Messari docs now title themselves "Messari Docs (Legacy)" and say that API "is in maintenance mode. New data and features ship only on the new Blockworks API", which is documented at docs.blockworks.com. This card keeps its old address, and the Messari name in its description, because that is the name most readers will still type.

It sits in fundamentals and research here, with a secondary listing under market-data APIs, because the subscription is bought for the asset profiles, the research and the event monitoring rather than for the price endpoints: the market and reference data are what every paid seat includes and what the SDK is built around, and a developer's shortlist of data APIs legitimately has it, but the buyer is an analyst. The on-chain half — 25-plus networks, 200-plus protocols, 30-plus stablecoins — is real and is not the job the subscription is bought for either. Until 8 October 2026 the card was filed under market-data APIs.

Pricing

Two published plans and two quoted ones, as the pricing page read on 23 October 2026. Free is $0 and buys basic data on assets, protocols and exchanges, the quarterly protocol reports, one watchlist and view-only access to charts and dashboards; the plan comparison gives it no screener, no subscriber research, no news feed, no CSV export and no API endpoints. Pro is shown as $375 a month "billed annually", which the page itself spells out as $4,500 a year — the same annual figure the individual Enterprise seat carried before the move. The billing switch defaults to annual, labelled "Save 17%", beside a quarterly option whose figure did not render in our reading, so it is not on this card.

Pro adds the screener, unlimited watchlists, subscriber research and the news feed, fundraising, token-unlock and sentiment data, the AI tools, CSV export of any chart, and the Assets API endpoints — and only those: the pricing FAQ says Pro "provides access to only the Assets endpoints in the API". The full Blockworks API, the MCP server, data shares and the spreadsheet plugin are "Contact Sales", and so are the two custom plans, Blockworks Data for teams building on the data and Blockworks Monitoring for event alerts, neither of which carries a price.

The legacy Messari API is still documented and still metered as it was. Its tiers page, re-read on 23 October 2026 under the maintenance-mode banner, gives 200 requests a minute globally for unpaid, Lite and Pro keys and 600 for Enterprise, with the AI chat endpoints at 10 requests a day free and 600 a minute on Enterprise, plus a credit pack on top. Its x402 route skips subscriptions entirely: it bills per request in USDC settled on Base or Solana, with no account and no API key, at a per-call rate published in dollars — $0.00 for the asset, metric and market listings, $0.10 for asset details, all-time highs or ROI, $0.15 for a daily asset time series and $0.18 for hourly, $0.35 for market time-series metrics, $0.75 for a market time series and $0.25 for an AI chat completion. It is the cheapest way to look at the data before paying for a seat, on an API that its own docs say gets no new data or features.

Data & coverage

Market data covers price, trading volume and market cap for more than 40,000 assets across a stated 210-plus exchanges. Exchange coverage is aggregate rather than granular — spot volume, futures volume and futures open interest per venue, not a tape.

The on-chain side is metric-level, not query-level: 25-plus layer 1s and layer 2s including Ethereum and Solana with fees, active addresses and the usual network series; 200-plus protocols with TVL, active addresses, deposits, borrows and trading volume, split into DEX, lending, liquid staking, interoperability, ETFs and more; 30-plus stablecoins with supply, transfers and transaction volume. You do not write SQL against a chain here — you read the vendor's computed series.

The qualitative half is what the coverage numbers understate. News comes from 500-plus sources with per-article asset tagging and topic classification. Monitoring watches 60-plus event types across 1,000-plus assets from 700-plus sources, and the pitch is that a human verified each one before it fired. Token unlocks cover vesting and cliffs for 150-plus assets; fundraising covers 17,000-plus rounds plus M&A and investor profiles. Bulk downloads come out as CSV or JSONL, gated by tier.

Integrations

The hosted MCP server is the cleanest way in for anything agentic: one URL, https://mcp.blockworks.com/mcp, authenticated in the browser with a Blockworks API key, the client keeping the resulting OAuth credentials rather than the key. Its documentation lists six tools — document search over research, news and curated sources, a catalog-and-read pair each for the tabular and the time-series models, and a feedback tool. On the published plans it is a sales item. The REST API is served from api.blockworks.com with the key in an X-Blockworks-API-Key header. Monitoring delivers to Slack, Telegram, webhooks or an API, by the pricing page. The Messari SDK was TypeScript, and is covered under Limitations.

Limitations

The SDK is the weak link and it is easy to miss, because the docs point at three packages and none of them lands cleanly. The Quickstart installs @messari/sdk-ts, whose latest npm release is 0.4.0 from June 2025 and whose linked repository, messari/sdk-ts, returns a 404. The examples page installs and imports @messari/client, which is not a package on npm at all — the registry 404s for it. The older @messari/sdk is still published at 0.0.10 from April 2025, is no longer referenced by any docs page, and the MessariKit repository behind it last saw a commit in August 2025. The API those packages wrap is now legacy itself — its docs say it is in maintenance mode and that new data and features ship only on the Blockworks API — so build against the Blockworks REST API or the MCP server, not the Messari SDK.

Almost everything distinctive sits behind Pro or a sales call, and the gate is finer than the plan names suggest. Pro's API access is the Assets endpoints and nothing else; the full API, the MCP server, data shares and the spreadsheet plugin are all quoted. The legacy API's free AI allowance of ten requests a day is enough to see the shape of an answer and not enough to build against.

As a market-data source it is shallow by design. No order books, no trade tape, no funding rates, no options, no per-market granularity — exchange data stops at spot volume, futures volume and open interest. If a pricing or execution system needs a reference rate or a venue tape, this is not the provider for that job.

One naming trap worth knowing before you wire anything up. In the legacy Messari API, "Intel" was an endpoint family already being retired in favour of Monitoring — the docs called Monitoring its "next-gen replacement" — while "Blockworks Intel" is now the name of the whole product. Anything built on the old Intel endpoints is built on a deprecation inside a maintenance-mode API.

On the AI, as documented for the legacy Messari API: what the product emits is prose and rows, not calls. Copilot answers questions with citations into Messari's own corpus. Deep Research runs asynchronously for five to ten minutes and returns a long-form templated report with source links, refreshed weekly. The Search agent deliberately returns only the retrieved documents, with no synthesised answer, and leaves the writing to you; the Compute agent returns the SQL it ran alongside the rows. Signals ranks assets by mindshare and sentiment, which is attention rather than a view on price. Nothing documented issues a buy, a sell, a target or an allocation — but every one of those outputs is generated text, and a cited report is still a report somebody has to check.

Alternatives

The jump on this card is from free to 4,500 dollars a year, so the useful alternatives are the ones that price the middle. Token Terminal sells protocol fundamentals at 350 dollars a month, Artemis at 100 for a seat, and DefiLlama gives away the TVL and fee series entirely. For token unlocks on their own, Tokenomist covers more than 500 tokens against the 150-plus here, with API access from 99 dollars a month.

For the news half, nothing here matches the analyst-verified event stream; the nearest thing in the catalogue is Santiment, which reads social rather than reporting, and CoinGecko API, which carries asset profiles and prices without the research desk behind them.

If it is the raw material you want rather than the write-up, Dune and Allium sell the chain data these profiles are built on.