Moralis

Moralis is a Web3 development and blockchain-data infrastructure platform headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and operated as a remote-first company. Its platform provides access to real-time and historical on-chain data across more than 50 chains through a single unified schema. The current product line comprises four components: a Data API for fetching multichain data on wallets, tokens, NFTs and DeFi protocols; Streams for monitoring live events from any wallet, contract or address with custom filters and guaranteed delivery; Datashare for exporting large historical datasets into destinations such as Snowflake, BigQuery, S3 or other data warehouses; and a Data Indexer that lets businesses index crypto data with custom enterprise schemas, real-time pipelines and historical backfills.

The company markets solution sets around wallets and portfolios (native, ERC-20, NFT and DeFi balances, token metadata, human-readable transaction history, address labelling, spam filtering, balance-change webhooks), tax and accounting/compliance (transaction categorisation, real-time and historical prices, decoded DeFi balances), DeFi and analytics (dashboards and trading bots, cross-chain liquidity data, enriched token data), and stablecoins and real-world assets (supply and holder tracking, tokenized asset metrics, DEX and CEX price data).

At the time of its 2022 Series A, Moralis positioned itself as an end-to-end backend for decentralized application development, bundling user authentication, identity management, session management and historic/real-time transaction data so that developers could focus on front-end work. Chains supported at that point included Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Binance Smart Chain and Avalanche; the company's status page currently lists EVM API coverage for chains such as Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Cronos, Optimism, Base, Gnosis and Chiliz, plus a Solana API, Streams, Auth API and RPC nodes.

Founding story

Co-founders Ivan Liljeqvist and Filip Martinsson met as computer science students in the 2010s and had both been developers since childhood and involved in crypto since 2013. While running what they describe as the largest blockchain coding academy, used by 38,000 people, they tried to build an app allowing students to use their own digital assets and found the backend work took weeks rather than the few days they expected. They began building tooling to solve that problem for their students, then generalised it into a product for other developers. The first iteration was developed in about two months.

Business model

Moralis sells developer and enterprise access to blockchain data infrastructure, with self-serve API key signup alongside an enterprise sales motion (demo requests, custom throughput limits, committed-use discounts, 24/7 engineering access and support, early feature access). It positions itself as a cheaper alternative to building and maintaining in-house indexing infrastructure. At the time of the Series A, the founders described monetisation as a later-stage goal after establishing the platform as a standard for dapp development.

Paid access to APIs, streams, dataset exports and dedicated indexing, including enterprise agreements with custom throughput limits and committed-use discounts; the site advertises free API key signup as an entry point.

Traction

Company-reported figures include 100+ million end users powered, 2+ billion API requests served per month and 50+ supported chains. Around the May 2022 Series A, the company reported more than 120,000 developers and 67 employees across 34 countries, with tens of thousands of Web3 projects using its APIs. Named customers and references include MetaMask, Ronin, Blockchain.com, Wirex, Delta, Ctrl (formerly XDEFI Wallet) and RTFKT.

Latest developments

The current website describes an enterprise-oriented product suite of Data API, Streams, Datashare and Data Indexer, plus Data Feeds, with dedicated solution areas for wallets and portfolios, tax and accounting, DeFi and analytics, and stablecoins and real-world assets, and states coverage of 50+ chains, 100+ million end users powered and 2+ billion monthly API requests.