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Amberdata is an institutional digital asset data and analytics provider. It delivers crypto market data (spot, futures, and options), blockchain (on-chain) network data, DeFi protocol metrics, wallet intelligence, and derivatives analytics through APIs (HTTP, streaming, and cloud sync) as well as hosted analytics products. Coverage spans more than 1,000 centralized and decentralized exchanges, over 13 years of historical data, and more than 500,000 tracked trading pairs, normalised into a single data model so institutional clients do not have to reconcile formats venue by venue. The company targets regulated financial institutions rather than retail traders: asset managers, investment banks, trading firms, central banks, regulators, venture capital firms, and corporate treasuries. Its differentiator within the crypto data category is depth in derivatives and reference data rather than spot prices alone. The GVOL options analytics platform provides digital asset options pricing, volatility surfaces, and flow analysis, an area many crypto data vendors treat as secondary. Amberdata also publishes ARC (Asset Reference and Classification), described as an open source crypto asset mapping and security master, and Amberdata Intelligence, an AI driven research interface that unifies derivatives, DeFi, stablecoin, and spot data for analysts. Amberdata was founded in 2017 by CEO Shawn Douglass and co-founder and COO Tongtong Gong. It raised a $2 million seed round, a $15 million Series A in September 2021 backed by Galaxy Digital, and a $30 million Series B in May 2022 led by Knollwood Investment Advisory at a reported $330 million valuation, with participation from Citi, Franklin Templeton, Nasdaq Ventures, Coinbase, and Susquehanna International Group; total funding raised is reported at $47 million. The company lists Citi, Coinbase, Nasdaq, National Australia Bank, Franklin Templeton, Nomura, Moody's, and Galaxy Digital among its clients. In 2025 Amberdata won the US FinTech Awards Crypto Award and was named Alternative Data Provider of the Year at the Hedgeweek Global Digital Asset Awards. On June 2, 2026, Paris-based Kaiko announced its acquisition of Amberdata, Kaiko's fifth acquisition and the largest consolidation to date among institutional digital asset data providers; deal terms were not disclosed. Kaiko said the combined company would serve more than 260 institutional clients worldwide, integrating Amberdata's derivatives analytics and AI research tools, including GVOL, into Kaiko's existing data, pricing, and index business.
