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The Team That Indexed Crypto Now Wants Banks to Prove It
Edge & Node built the query layer beneath most of DeFi. Now the same engineers are packaging blockchain data for the banks, stablecoin issuers, and AI agents that need to prove where every number came from.
Space and Time
A smart contract can execute perfectly and still act on a bad answer. Space and Time is building the database layer that sends the answer with its receipt.
Adot
Adot wants to search the parts of the internet that conventional engines flatten or miss - then let users and developers share in the value of the index. The idea sits somewhere between an AI answer engine, a Web3 data layer, and a public experiment in who gets paid when the internet organizes itself.
The Tie
The Tie is a New York-based information services company for institutional digital asset markets. Founded in 2017, it built the Crypto SigDev Terminal - a Bloomberg-style workstation that combines real-time news, sentiment analytics, market data, and on-chain data - and has since expanded into staking infrastructure, corporate access and advisory, and compliant institutional messaging. Its clients include hedge funds, market makers, banks, trading venues, and crypto protocols.
Joshua Frank
Joshua Frank is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, a New York-based data and analytics company that has become a core information provider for institutional crypto investors. The Tie's SigDev Terminal and APIs deliver real-time sentiment, news, and market data to hedge funds, trading desks, banks, and exchanges. Frank left a post-trade consulting role at SS&C Technologies in 2018 to build the company full time, and has since grown it into one of the most widely used data platforms serving the professional side of digital assets.
Allium
Allium is a New York and Singapore based blockchain data infrastructure company that turns raw, messy on-chain activity from 150+ chains and thousands of protocols into clean, query-ready data. Through APIs, real-time streams, data shares, and an analytics terminal, it serves as a system of record for on-chain finance, powering institutions like Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, and Phantom. The company raised a $16.5M Series A in July 2024 led by Theory Ventures.
Ethan Chan
Ethan Chan is the co-founder and CEO of Allium, a New York and Singapore based company building the system of record for onchain finance. After leading machine learning and data engineering teams at Primer and lecturing at Stanford, he turned to the unglamorous work of cleaning up blockchain data, translating raw events from 150+ chains and 10,000 protocols into standardized, finance-ready datasets used by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, Uniswap and Phantom. He cheerfully calls himself the Chief Data Plumber.