Raw blockchain data, refined into the alerts, charts and metrics that professional traders and institutions actually act on.
CRYPTOQUANT — the on-chain analytics platform founded by Ki Young Ju, often called "the Bloomberg of crypto."
Everyone watches the price. CryptoQuant watches what moves underneath it - coins shifting onto exchanges, miners drawing down reserves, funding rates flipping, stablecoins massing before a buy. Founded in 2018 by South Korean data scientist Ki Young Ju, the company was built on a simple premise: the blockchain is public, but public is not the same as usable.
The platform collects raw on-chain and exchange data, enriches it with entity and exchange labels - knowing which wallet belongs to which venue is the hard, valuable part - and delivers it as more than 100 indicators across Bitcoin and major assets. Exchange inflow and outflow, miner balances, realized capitalization, derivatives open interest and funding rates all arrive as dashboards, charts, alerts and APIs.
That labeling work is why institutions cite CryptoQuant more than ten thousand times a month, and why the platform earned a nickname that stuck: the Bloomberg of crypto. When a wall of stablecoins hit exchanges before the Terra-Luna collapse, and when balances shifted ahead of the FTX implosion, CryptoQuant's flow alerts flagged the anomalies - a track record that turned a Seoul startup into an early-warning system the market checks by reflex.
In July 2022 that credibility crossed into traditional finance: CryptoQuant became the first on-chain data provider listed on CME Group's DataMine marketplace. A year later, parent company Team Blackbird closed a $6.5M Series A led by Atinum Investment, adding to earlier backing from Galaxy Interactive and Mirae Asset Capital.
Dashboards with 100+ indicators: exchange flows, miner balances, realized cap and wallet activity across Bitcoin and major assets.
Open interest, funding rates and liquidations - the derivatives picture pros need alongside on-chain signals.
Low-latency, full-history APIs and libraries so funds and quants can wire on-chain metrics into their own systems.
Exchange-flow and anomaly alerts that act as an early-warning system for market-moving events.
Drag-and-drop, pre-built and customizable charts that let non-technical users build proprietary metrics.
CryptoQuant metrics distributed through CME Group's marketplace - the first on-chain provider listed there.
"Some bullish Bitcoin opium is coming in the next few months to relieve your bear market pain. Just not yet."
CryptoQuant serves both ends of the market from one data layer. Retail traders get no-code, drag-and-drop charts and free tiers; quants and funds get low-latency APIs with full history; and institutions reach the same metrics through CME DataMine. The result is a customer base spanning professional and retail traders, on-chain researchers, exchanges and 200-plus institutional clients, alongside more than a million individual users.
The differentiator isn't the raw data - it's knowing which wallet is which exchange. That labeling turns public data into exchange-flow signals competitors can't just download.
No-code charts for casual traders, low-latency full-history APIs for quants. Same data, served to opposite ends of the barbell.
Being first on CME DataMine put on-chain data on a shelf traditional finance already trusts - a distribution moat.
Flagging Terra-Luna and FTX anomalies early built reliability that matters more than any bullish forecast.
In a crowded field - Glassnode, Nansen, Santiment, Coin Metrics, Kaiko, Messari - CryptoQuant stakes its position on exchange-flow depth, entity labeling and institutional reach rather than trying to be everything to everyone.
Business model: B2B and B2C SaaS. Tiered subscriptions run from a free tier through retail Advanced and Professional plans up to enterprise data and API contracts, complemented by distribution partnerships such as CME DataMine. Annual revenue is estimated around $6M with a team of roughly 38 across Seoul and New York.
Ki Young Ju begins building the platform to make on-chain data readable for traders.
Indicator coverage broadens across Bitcoin and major altcoins.
CryptoQuant data reaches institutional subscribers through CME Group's marketplace.
Flow alerts flag anomalies around the Terra-Luna collapse and FTX implosion.
Parent company Team Blackbird raises a round led by Atinum Investment.
CEO argues the traditional four-year Bitcoin cycle is obsolete as institutions dominate price action.
It collects raw blockchain and exchange data, enriches it with entity labels, and delivers on-chain and market metrics as dashboards, charts, alerts and APIs for traders and institutions.
It was founded by Ki Young Ju around 2018; he serves as CEO, and the parent company is Team Blackbird.
Professional and retail crypto traders, on-chain researchers, funds, exchanges and 200+ institutional clients, alongside over a million individual users.
Through tiered SaaS subscriptions for retail and institutional users, enterprise data and API contracts, and distribution partnerships such as CME DataMine.
It emphasizes exchange-flow and entity-labeled metrics, low-latency full-history APIs, no-code customizable charts, and institutional distribution via CME DataMine.