Blockworks lost 82% of its revenue when conferences vanished. The rescue - podcasts, research, and a data platform - became a more interesting company than the one the founders had planned.
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.