Big Data Protocol

Name

Big Data Protocol

Legal name

Big Data Protocol

Website

https://bigdataprotocol.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Decentralized Data Marketplace (DeFi)

NAICS

Securities and Commodity Exchanges (523210), Commodity Contracts Intermediation (52316)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200)

akta.pro primary industry

DeFi Asset Management & On-Chain Index Protocols (FSADAMAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Liquidity Management & Market-Making Protocols (FSADAMAH), Yield Aggregators & Strategy Vaults (FSADAMAF), DEX Aggregation & On-Chain Execution (routing, RFQ, intent-based trading) (FSAPAEAD)

Keywords

• Decentralized data marketplace
• Defi liquidity pools
• Ai data trading
• Data monetization protocol
• Alternative data analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Data Marketplace Commissions: Platform serves as a marketplace where data providers list datasets and data buyers purchase access, with the protocol likely taking a commission on transactions
2. Liquidity Pool Token Economics: Users stake liquidity in pools (BDP/ETH, bAlpha/ETH, bBeta/ETH, WBTC, USDT, USDC, LINK, UNI, SUSHI, OCEAN) to earn yields and potentially receive token rewards from the protocol

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Big Data Protocol operates a Web 3.0 DeFi protocol and data marketplace that sources highly valuable private data from third-party providers and integrates it with AI agents to autonomously generate and trade on alpha-generating investment insights. Its core offerings are the Data Room marketplace (where data providers monetize commercial datasets and buyers purchase access), the Data Vault liquidity pools (where users stake BDP/ETH, bAlpha/ETH, and bBeta/ETH pairs for yield), and SPOCK AI (chatbot for navigating and transacting data). Revenue derives from marketplace commissions and DeFi tokenomics, with datasets covering stock ratings, crypto sentiment, on-chain metrics, company KPIs, and e-commerce transactions.

Product overview

Big Data Protocol is a DeFi protocol and AI platform that sources highly valuable private data, integrates it with AI agents across different investment strategies, posts insights on social channels, and trades on alpha-generating insights autonomously. The platform operates through its Data Room marketplace for accessing commercial datasets, the Data Vault for liquidity provision, and SPOCK AI for facilitating data transactions. Data products are organized into Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Collections, with offerings spanning financial datasets, cryptocurrency sentiment data, company KPIs, and e-commerce transactions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SPOCK AI: An AI chatbot for data buyers and data sellers
• Data Room
• Data Vault

Products and services

• Data Room A marketplace platform where data providers list unique, commercially valuable data products (financial datasets, sentiment data, company KPIs, etc.) and data buyers purchase access. Connects thousands of companies as data providers with buyers seeking investment-grade information.
• Data Vault Liquidity pool platform where users stake cryptocurrency pairs (BDP/ETH, bAlpha/ETH, bBeta/ETH, WBTC, USDT, USDC, LINK, UNI, SUSHI, OCEAN) to earn yield and participate in the protocol's data marketplace ecosystem.
• SPOCK AI Chatbot AI chatbot designed for data buyers and data sellers to navigate the Big Data Protocol platform, discover datasets, and facilitate data transactions via conversational interaction.
• Alpha Collection (bAlpha) Collection of data products on the Data Room accessible via the bAlpha token, featuring datasets from providers such as ClosingBell and other partners.
• Beta Collection (bBeta) Current collection of beta-tier data products available on the Data Room, accessible with bBeta tokens via associated Data Vault liquidity pools.
• ClosingBell Stock Ratings Dataset Crowdsourced stock price targets and ratings covering approximately 3,000 US stocks from April 2014 to present, with buy/sell ratings from thousands of contributors; backed by a platform with over 45,000 users.
• Crypto Sentiment Data Large-scale sentiment data from crypto Twitter (up to 200k tweets per token) covering major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum, with supporting tweet-level detail.
• Public Company KPIs (Amoss Insights) Hundreds of Key Performance Indicators systematically collected and tracked from quarterly SEC filings of over 80 public companies, including revenue breakdowns, financial metrics, and operating metrics.
• Glassnode On-Chain Metrics Blockchain data and intelligence including MVRV Z Score, Net Unrealized Profit/Loss, and Exchange Balance metrics for Bitcoin, sourced from Glassnode.
• E-commerce Transactional Data Consumer e-commerce transactional data sourced from a panel of more than 170,000 users' anonymized email receipts, with item-level detail.
• Cryptocurrency Market Data (Finage) Real-time and historical cryptocurrency prices and market depth across 1,500+ cryptocurrencies, plus forex and US stock market quotes sourced from Finage.

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ClosingBellcoreTechnology or IntegrationClosingBell is a stock recommendation platform that provides unique insights and actionable trading ideas by ranking thousands of independent, unbiased analysts. Founded in 2014, it has over 45,000 users. Provides tens of thousands of stock ratings covering about 3,000 US stocks from April 2014 to present.
• GlassnodecoreTechnology or IntegrationGlassnode is the crypto industry's leading data provider for actionable insights and trading signals. Provides BTC on-chain metrics including MVRV Z Score, Net Unrealized Profit/Loss, and Exchange Balance data.
• Amoss InsightscoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides hundreds of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) systematically collected and tracked from quarterly SEC filings of over 80 public companies. KPIs include revenue breakdowns, financial metrics, and operating metrics.
• Wootrade (by Kronos Research)coreTechnology or IntegrationThe Wootrade Network consists of an intelligent order matching and routing engine that combines global liquidity and top market-makers. Kronos Research processes around $5 billion in trading volume per day. Provides BTC/USDT hourly spot prices.
• FinagecoreTechnology or IntegrationA cryptocurrency, currency, and stock real-time & historical data provider company based in the U.K. Provides cryptocurrency prices and market depth, forex quotes and ticks, and US stock market quotes and order books.
• CryptoquotecoreTechnology or IntegrationProvider of cryptocurrency data APIs, distributing real-time and time series historical tick-by-tick cryptocurrency price data supported from liquid trading venues. Provides BTC/USD 1-minute bar prices on Binance and BTC/EUR on Coinbase.
• Xena ExchangecoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides BTC TWAP (Time-Weighted-Average Price) index dataset on a second-by-second, tick-by-tick level used to calculate perpetuals and futures of Bitcoin.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol is the leading decentralized data marketplace where providers monetize data assets and buyers consume them via datatokens — the closest direct competitor to BDP's Data Room, with stronger brand and network effects in the same DeFi-data niche.
• The Graph: The Graph indexes blockchain data via subgraphs and serves it via a decentralized query layer — competing with BDP for on-chain data buyers and developer mindshare in the broader DeFi data infrastructure stack.
• Streamr: Streamr operates a decentralized real-time data marketplace and pub/sub network, directly comparable to BDP's Data Room for streaming and monetizing third-party data feeds on-chain.

Broad incumbents

• Glassnode: Glassnode is the established institutional provider of crypto on-chain analytics (MVRV, NUPL, exchange balances) — both a BDP data partner and a broader incumbent whose subscription business overlaps with BDP's premium data offerings.
• Kaiko: Kaiko provides institutional-grade crypto market data (prices, order books, reference rates) and competes with BDP's Finage/Cryptoquote/Xena integrations for institutional data buyers.
• CryptoCompare: CryptoCompare is an established crypto data aggregator providing market data, indices, and reference rates to institutions — comparable to BDP's crypto pricing and sentiment data products.
• CoinMarketCap: CoinMarketCap is the largest retail-facing crypto data aggregator; while not DeFi-native, it competes for the same retail trader attention that BDP targets with its alpha-posting AI agents on X.

Emerging players

• Dune Analytics: Dune Analytics offers community-built crypto dashboards and on-chain queries, increasingly encroaching on BDP's territory for crypto-data-driven investment insights with strong community engagement.
• Messari: Messari curates and sells premium crypto research, data, and intelligence — overlapping with BDP's data buyer use case for institutional-grade digital asset insights.
• Numerai: Numerai runs a hedge fund powered by crowd-sourced ML models and stakes its NMR token — analogous to BDP's model of crowdsourced data + AI agents trading on alpha signals, with token-incentivized contribution.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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