Messari Community Updates

One of the things we nailed early in Messari's life was building an organic community of contributors and supporters via our community analyst program.

We've been heads down closing a fundraise and scaling the internal team in the past couple of quarters, but as we look forward to 2020, there are a number of ways we intend to scale our extended team and global community as well. We hope some of these will excite you, and get you to join us more actively! :)

Some of the ideas I'm most excited about:

Community Analyst Program, Part Two

Some time in the next couple of weeks, we're going to do a "where are they now" post about our 2018 community analyst pool. It's been wild to watch the folks that joined Eric (our head of research) on a volunteer basis, leverage us and their peers to catapult into full-time positions throughout the industry. We can't take credit for anything they've accomplished since, but if we can be even marginally effective as a training ground for new professionals looking to enter the space full time, we'll do that in a heartbeat.

We've made two full-time hires from our community analyst pool, and dozens more have gone on to a variety of amazing positions worldwide. If you are interested in learning more about this program, stay tuned for more info and an application in the new year.

Open API

Next year will also be the year we aim to gradually open-source and decentralize our entire crypto asset data library. We said from day one the industry needed a "single source of truth" for basic information, and the best way to power that would be via a free API, and a community governed disclosures library. We've taken these responsibilities on almost entirely ourselves so far, but 2020 presents opportunities to expand the contributor and validator base.

We are certainly putting our money where our mouths are on this front. Our registry business currently represents the majority of our revenue, yet we plan to open ourselves up for competition (!!!) because it's healthy and will grow the pie for all.

We shouldn't compete on basic, freely available data. Let's work together.

Messari Labs

One of the things that gets really interesting with open APIs and open data is the diversity of experimentation that can take place from analysts and hobbyists. Tinkerers don't have to worry about building duplicative infrastructure, or concocting competing data standards and methodologies to build tools that help people filter through the crypto noise. We hope more teams experiment with our APIs, and may even consider incubating small teams that are passionate about further building out important side projects of ours like OnChainFX.com, Boards, and Stablecoin Index.

If you're a hacker, check these out, and get in touch if you'd like to collaborate on them.

¿Você fala Messari?

Our news feed is now available in Portuguese via our partners at Money Times. We hope to add foreign media and information partners that help us extend Messari's reach to a worldwide audience next year. Our news feed will be free to license for any enterprising global supporter who's willing to help us polish our analyses in the local lingo.

How else can we build out our community?

-TBI