Continuation of work through Messari Protocol Services
Messari is looking to renew its existing engagement with Polkadot continuing to provide recurring research while expanding the scope and including more governance-specific work.
From this time last year, we have 3x our headcount with a team of over 150 after raising a Seris B led by Brevan Howard Digital. We’ve used that to significantly scale our research, data science, and engineering resources to build out our quarterly reporting and research capabilities. This has enabled us to bring all of our research in-house so we can have dedicated sector-specific analysts assigned to each protocol to cover them each quarter and continue to build up expertise.
We have also been working extensively on growing the distribution of these reports to further their reach and have signed deals with Bloomberg, S&P Global, and Refinitiv three of the largest traditional research platforms which are now distributing our quarterly reports.
We are proposing a continuation of the ecosystem-wide report along with quarterly reports while adding a governance deep dive. The total will be $190k payable in DOT with the same 10% premium to account for market volatility.
You can find more details in the full proposal.
Comments (5)
Any metrics to show the performance of 2022 reports? How many views in total? From my point of view the State of Polkadot quarterly reports & the 2022 Ecosystem report are low-quality and show that the Messari research team barely understands how Polkadot works. I think a much more detailed proposal should be submitted before the Polkadot council even vote on this. No reason to pay 200K for little to no marketing reach at all.
The last report was sent to 300k subscribers and had nearly a 30% open rate. We're still waiting on the readership numbers from Bloomberg, S&P, and Refinitiv but those are 3 of the largest research platforms in the world. I'm not sure in what world that constitutes "no marketing reach at all". That's not to mention this isn't a marketing proposal, while yes there is a growth component given the widespread distribution on these reports- this is an investor relations service for protocols. With it comes a huge data science lift to provide in depth analytics to increase transparency and better inform stakeholders what's going on at the network level. As to the quality of the reports - can you point to specific instances in the previous reports that were incorrect? We've received a ton of great feedback from the team and community members saying otherwise so would be curious to know what was missed.