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LunarCrush is a social media intelligence platform that converts public activity on X, Reddit, YouTube and TikTok into structured, quantitative data. It tracks posts, mentions and engagement across tens of thousands of cryptocurrencies plus stocks, NFTs and dozens of other topic categories, and computes two proprietary scores, Galaxy Score (a blend of price action, social engagement, sentiment and correlation) and AltRank (a relative ranking of an asset's social and market performance against its peers), that traders and researchers use alongside price charts to gauge attention and sentiment shifts. The data reaches users through a web dashboard, a mobile app, a developer API, and, more recently, an MCP server that lets AI agents query the same metrics directly. The company specializes in social and attention data rather than price, fundamentals or order-book data, which sets it apart from conventional market-data vendors. It began as a crypto-only sentiment tool, later expanded into stocks and NFTs, and in 2023 added a "Social Search" feature letting users track any topic, not just tradeable assets, across social platforms; this positions LunarCrush as a general social-listening layer with a financial-markets focus rather than a narrow crypto analytics tool. Its customer base spans retail crypto and stock traders, quantitative researchers building sentiment signals, developers embedding the API into trading bots, and builders of AI trading agents. LunarCrush also operates its own utility token, Lunr, launched in 2021 on the Zilliqa network, which gates access to personalized analytics and rewards creators for the engagement their posts drive, an incentive-token distribution model that traditional data vendors do not use. LunarCrush was founded in 2018 in Los Angeles by Joe Vezzani, who remains chief executive, and went through Techstars' Los Angeles accelerator in 2019 with roughly $120,000 in pre-seed backing. In July 2023 it raised a $5 million Series A co-led by Draper Round Table (Tim Draper's investment network) and INCE Capital, with participation from Draper Associates, WWVentures, Blockchain Founders Fund, MoonPay, EMURGO and Techstars among others, reported at a $30 million post-money valuation. The 2021 Lunr token launch drew heavy incentive-farming activity from coordinated groups seeking to earn tokens through fake engagement; LunarCrush has said it identified and deactivated more than five million fake accounts tied to that activity. LunarCrush is listed as an official connector in Anthropic's Claude Connectors directory, exposing Galaxy Score, AltRank and its other social metrics as tools that Claude and other MCP-compatible AI systems can query directly, part of a recent repositioning of the platform to serve AI agents as a data consumer alongside human traders.
