Proposal: Messari Protocol Services, Quarterly Research Renewal

Abstract:

We propose that Messari provides research and reporting services for Venus in the form of quarterly reports. This will serve to better inform existing stakeholders and attract new ones while building out the open-source data infrastructure for the community.

About Messari:

Messari is a team of crypto natives passionate about building powerful data analytics tools for the Web3 world. The company was started in early 2018 and has since scaled to over 150 employees after raising a Series B led by Brevan Howard. We’ve also received a grant from The Graph to become a core developer. It has allowed us to build and standardize subgraphs, creating a robust open-source data infrastructure for the broader crypto ecosystem.

Messari is functionally split into two distinct units:

● Messari Enterprise, a paywalled market intelligence platform that operates like a traditional SaaS business. ● Messari Protocol Services, which provides research and reporting services on behalf of protocols and DAOs. The entirety of the work from the underlying data infrastructure to the reports themselves are open sourced and publicly available. Therefore, the work is sustained based on grants from projects whether through the development team, grants program, or DAO treasury funding.

This proposal is coming on behalf of Messari Protocol Services.

Commitment to transparency

Funding this type of reporting demonstrates a proactive commitment by Venus to transparency and accountability, two core tenets of this industry. Doing so sends positive signals to prospective users, clients, and partners. Additionally, our work with regulators in DC has made it clear that this type of transparency is looked upon favorably and highlights decentralization by working with third-party service providers to execute crucial functions.

Pricing & Resources

(4) Quarterly Reports ($23,750/quarter)

(1) Enterprise License ($8,000/annual) *Comped

Total: $95,000

Which goes towards funding:

Research

Our analysts spend several weeks researching and writing each report, along with an extensive internal editing and review process by the broader team.

Data Science and Engineering

Each report will have its own dedicated data science and engineering resources tasked with providing all the relevant raw data. This requires ingesting large amounts of data which is housed in a data warehouse, incurring storage and compute costs.

Distribution

We have several members of the team working on distribution for these reports across all of Messari’s channels along with the third-party partners.

Complete details of the proposal in the link below.