Ryan Selkis

Ryan Selkisis the CEO of Messari, co-founded with Dan McArdle. Messari is an online database for the crypto industry that provides data insights, pricing and research on crypto assets through an open source library of information.

Selkis has a Bachelor of Science in finance from Boston College and an MBA in entrepreneurship and innovation from theMIT Sloan School of Management.

Selkis started blogging about crypto in 2013 under thepseudonym “Two Bit Idiot.” He gained significant media attention the following year by breaking the news of the Mt. Gox hack. He is both an industry insider and a critic, known for his outspoken and direct communication style.

The media and individual investors take note of his predictions, opinions, and criticisms of crypto projects and news. For the past six years, he has published his yearly “Crypto Theses” which include forecasts of thecrypto market in the year ahead.

Selkis started Messari in 2018 with the mission of bringing more transparency and fairness to the industry after observing that information was divided unevenly between insiders and average investors.

Selkis has invested in numerous crypto projects, including Juno,a cross-border neo-banking platform, Lit Protocol,a decentralized access control infrastructure, Goldfinch, a decentralized credit platform for crypto loans; Magna, a token vesting and investment management platform, and Massive, a payment layer for the internet.