Intelligence, infrastructure, advisory and communication solutions that power institutional participation in digital assets.
THE TIE, NEW YORK. The company's wordmark, where a green candlestick stands in for the letter “i” - a quiet nod to the market charts its terminal was built to read.
When Joshua and Eric Frank started The Tie in 2017, most institutions treated cryptocurrency as noise - a fast-moving market with data scattered across Twitter threads, exchange APIs, token-issuer blogs and half-legible on-chain ledgers. The Tie's first idea was almost contrarian: treat that noise as a dataset. It began by quantifying social-media sentiment on digital assets, then kept adding layers until it had built something closer to a Bloomberg terminal for crypto.
Today the company describes itself in four words on its own homepage: where institutions meet digital assets. Its flagship product, the SigDev Terminal (now simply The Tie Terminal), consolidates dozens of datasets into a single workspace - real-time news, sentiment analytics, spot and derivatives pricing, DeFi activity, macro indicators and on-chain flows - so an analyst never has to leave the screen to piece the market together.
The problem it solves is less about a shortage of information than an excess of it. Crypto never sleeps and never shuts up. The Tie's terminal tracks more than 5,000 primary sources in multiple languages - from SEC filings and regulatory rulings to press releases and exchange feeds - and surfaces the handful that actually move a position.
“Intelligence, infrastructure, advisory, and communication solutions that power institutional participation in digital assets.”
The Tie is deliberately not a retail app. Its customers are the institutions deciding where crypto capital flows - and the protocols trying to reach them.
The client roster reads like a cross-section of modern markets: traditional and crypto-native hedge funds, OTC desks, market makers, trading venues, banks and sell-side firms. On the protocol side, ecosystem relationships have included names such as Avalanche, Gemini, Hedera, Magic Eden and Polkadot.
For a portfolio manager, the value is speed and coverage - one screen instead of fifteen browser tabs. For a quant fund, it's clean data through APIs. For a token issuer, it's a way to be seen by the institutions that matter, through The Tie's Corporate Access and advisory arm.
Hedge funds, OTC desks and trading venues use the terminal and data APIs for research, screening and alerts.
Sell-side firms and banks tap institutional-grade datasets and redistribution licenses.
Corporate Access connects protocols to institutional relationships, with IR dashboards and quarterly calls.
A simplified look at the kinds of inputs The Tie structures into readable data - from unstructured social chatter to hard on-chain records.
Illustrative coverage across data categories the terminal consolidates. Not a performance metric.
What began as a single sentiment feed has grown into a stack spanning four business lines: market intelligence, infrastructure, advisory and communication.
The SigDev workstation - 400+ widgets across news, sentiment, spot/derivatives, on-chain, DeFi, macro and equities.
Alternative and market datasets delivered by API to quant funds, venues and platforms.
Institutional-grade datasets licensed to power trading venues and retail platforms.
Connects protocols with institutional exposure, IR dashboards and quarterly calls.
Secure, verified, compliant messaging built exclusively for crypto institutions.
Non-custodial staking across 40+ networks, ~$1.5B in assets under delegation.
The Tie runs a B2B model built on recurring revenue: terminal seats, data API access and dataset redistribution licenses, layered with advisory and corporate-access services for protocols. The 2025 Stakin acquisition added a fourth stream - staking infrastructure - that earns from delegated assets rather than subscriptions.
Public estimates put annual revenue in the region of $20M. Several of the investors on its cap table, including Gemini and Hudson River Trading, were customers first.
Rivals like Messari, Kaiko, Nansen and Glassnode each own a slice - research, market data, on-chain analytics. The Tie's wager is breadth plus institutional distribution: one terminal that spans news, sentiment, market and on-chain data, sold into the same funds and banks that already trust its APIs.
The move into staking and compliant messaging pushes it further from pure data toward a vertically integrated platform - harder to rip out once a desk depends on it.
| Round | Amount | Date | Valuation | Lead / Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | $9,000,000 | Mar 2022 | $100M | Blizzard (lead), Gemini, NYDIG, Hudson River Trading, GoldenTree, Republic |
Joshua Frank, Eric Frank, Joseph Gits and Ben Latz launch The TIE, LLC in New York to structure crypto's fragmented information.
Institutional-grade data feeds and APIs launch for quantitative and trading clients.
The Crypto SigDev Terminal debuts as a Bloomberg-style workstation for digital-asset investors.
Blizzard leads a strategic round with Gemini, NYDIG, Hudson River Trading, GoldenTree and Republic.
Compliant institutional messaging arrives; terminal grows to 400+ widgets and 5,000+ sources.
First acquisition brings $1.5B in delegated assets and launches the Infrastructure Solutions division.
Sets product and company direction; a regular voice on institutional crypto adoption.
Former president of Thomson Reuters' $2.3B Investment & Advisory division and founder of ADR.com.
Joseph Gits and Ben Latz round out the founding team behind The TIE, LLC.
“Where institutions meet digital assets.”
Interviews and terminal walkthroughs featuring CEO Joshua Frank and The Tie's platform.
It provides information services and infrastructure for institutional digital-asset markets, best known for The Tie Terminal, which combines real-time news, sentiment analytics, market data and on-chain data in one workstation.
Institutional participants - hedge funds, OTC desks, market makers, trading venues, banks, sell-side firms and crypto protocols - rather than retail users.
It was founded in 2017 by Joshua Frank (CEO), Eric Frank (Chairman), Joseph Gits and Ben Latz in New York.
The Tie raised a $9M Series A in March 2022 at a $100M valuation, led by Blizzard with investors including Gemini, NYDIG, Hudson River Trading, GoldenTree and Republic.
In 2025 The Tie acquired Stakin, a non-custodial staking provider with about $1.5B in assets under delegation across 40+ networks, launching its Infrastructure Solutions division.