Messari Daily Brief Feb. 11, 2021 - Messari Enterprise is Live

For three years, we’ve worked hard at Messari to standardize data on top cryptoassets and their underlying protocols. We’ve engaged with countless communities to compile high-fidelity project histories, technical overviews, stakeholder maps, economics details, and governance designs for major protocols in a single open research library along with markets data and tools for crypto professionals.

Today, we’re excited to share the culmination of much of our early work with the release of Messari Enterprise, a comprehensive new platform that combines our existing best in class data with a new suite of tools and alerts to monitor key updates for 100+ networks and assets.

We built this tool to help users understand how the crypto markets are evolving and how each network change (or proposal) might impact the assets they own and support. Prior to Messari Enterprise, tracking these updates required spending countless hours across disparate communication channels like Twitter, Telegram, Discord, forums, and GitHub. Now users have a professional team dedicated to keeping them up to date.

Messari Enterprise counts 125+ top crypto organizations as early subscribers, including infrastructure companies (Coinbase, Anchorage, BitGo, Fidelity, Fireblocks, Chainalysis), investors (Blockchain Capital, Blocktower, CMS, Polychain, Framework, Multicoin), and crypto projects (Aave, Synthetix, Cosmos, Solana, Filecoin, NEAR), who leverage the platform to keep tabs on meaningful day-to-day project developments amidst a sea of noise.

We make it easy to create custom alerts; sort asset updates by category, sector, and importance; and streamline research for 100+ top projects. Our early customers have benefited already from Messari Enterprise by using us to track:

• Novel Attacks: We monitor multiple project communications channels to identify potential bugs, hacks, or exploits across our universe of covered assets. In October, we quickly updated our users on a Maker governance issue which introduced the potential for attackers to leverage flash loans to game votes; in December, we tracked an update from the Geth (ETH) team which outlined a potential DoS vulnerability that could impact Celo mainnet clients (a fork of Geth); and last week, we alerted users to real-time developments in an exploit impacting Yearn Finance’s yDai vault (and subsequent patch and resolution).
• Software Releases: We track upgrade proposals with notes on target dates, implementation details, and/or security concerns. In December, we flagged Filecoin’s Lotus v 1.3 network upgrade as a consensus-breaking release, and highlighted how network operators could upgrade their nodes, download the new release, and restart their operations. We help teams avoid unwelcome surprises that come from running deprecated node and wallet software, and keep them plan ahead for upcoming releases.
• Governance Tracking: We have the industry’s most comprehensive portal through which stakeholders can review critical project governance updates. DeFi can get especially noisy and complex, but our team tracks network fees and token distribution changes, collateral additions, proposed software upgrades, security parameter adjustments, and more for Maker, Uniswap, Aave, Compound, Sushiswap, and dozens of emerging networks with nearly $40 billion in locked protocol value. We highlight both ongoing votes as well as those proposed for discussion to make sure you know how you can be impacted.
• Token Swaps: This fall, Aragon worked to deprecate the Aragon Court (ANJ) token and allow holders to swap ANJ for the native ANT governance token. An initial swap proposal from the Aragon team was ultimately withdrawn and resubmitted with new terms, which led to a temporary arbitrage opportunity based on the adjustment to the proposed ANT redemption price. Conflicting information was disseminated across on-chain votes, official Twitter channels, and the Aragon governance forum. We tracked the updates in real-time and ensured our users had accurate real-time information and a chance for significant gains in a short time period.
• Network Outages: In early December, the Solana network suffered a temporary shutdown. A post on the outage in the Solana Discord was immediately picked up by the Messari team who flagged the alert and sent a push notification to Enterprise subscribers within minutes of the event. Our analysts later posted two additional updates providing users with details on how they could restart their nodes and access the current state of the network.

We encourage you to check out the release for yourself and see how Messari Enterprise can help ensure that you or your team never miss a critical update. This is merely the beginning of what we have planned for our Enterprise subscribers, and we think you'll like what comes next!

Want to learn more? Join us this afternoon at 1 PM EST for a product walkthrough and panel discussion to learn how the teams at Blocktower, Chainalysis, and Coinbase utilize Messari Enterprise in their daily workflows. Register here!

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• Amazon is launching a digital currency project in Mexico (CoinDesk)
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