Dan Smith

Product at Blockworks

I lead product at Blockworks. We build datasets that track economically valuable blockchain activity and use them to power our market intelligence products.

Experience

Blockworks

Product Feb 22 – Now

Bennett Thrasher

Finance May 21 – Feb 22

EY

Accounting Oct 19 – May 21

Selected work

  1. Messari acquisition

    2026

    Led product diligence and integration strategy for Blockworks’ acquisition of Messari, then drove execution toward the new unified platform.

  2. Token Transparency Framework

    2025

    Co-created a crypto disclosure standard supported by Coinbase and Moody’s, and presented it to the SEC as a proposed US token disclosure ruleset.

  3. REV (Real Economic Value)

    2024

    Tracked and popularized a methodology for measuring blockchain value accrual that became an industry benchmark and was adopted by third-party data providers.

  4. Blockworks data product

    2023

    Pitched, scoped, and shipped the data product from zero to one, then built the business model and team behind it.