Bespoke financial and market intelligence for investors and executives that plugs directly into strategy and execution
Intelligence as-a-service
Intelligence as a Service is our way of embedding continuous, high-signal market intelligence into your organization, without forcing your teams to spend time filtering noise, chasing updates, or building context from scratch. Act with clarity, confidence, and make faster, better decisions.
Fortune 500 and digital asset leaders trust our research & learn from us
Our Services
How we help you make faster, smarter decisions
We equip digital asset leaders with the insights and market intelligence they need to lead. Intelligence with influence.
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We produce bespoke research briefs and updates in the style of institutional equity research, but focused on your topics, not the market’s generic agenda.
Unlike subscriber research, this is:scoped specifically for your questions
written for internal circulation and executive discussion
updated on a cadence that matches your needs
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Helps you to understand how the ecosystem is actually moving beneath the surface.
Access to a highly specialized intelligence team with over a decade of experience in digital assets, deep institutional relationships, and direct proximity to the market’s most relevant operators, investors, and infrastructure providers.
This includes:
key infrastructure developments across custody, settlement, tokenization, payments, and on-chain rails
competitive and vendor intelligence (who is gaining traction, who is stalling, and why)
regulatory and policy signals, with second-order implications
market dynamics that don’t yet show up in public reporting
This work is grounded in:
continuous conversations with US-based infrastructure companies
close ties to operators, investors, and builders
real-time feedback from inside the ecosystem
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You don’t know your competitors well enough. Let’s fix that.
Product: Improve your product strategy with full feature lists of your competitors’ products.
Pitch: Know what they’re saying, so you can tell a better story.
Pricing: Get your competitor’s complete pricing table. Outflank them, outsell them.
51 is the only intelligence service for the digital assets industry.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Our team brings 10+ years of experience in digital assets, deep institutional relationships, and an exceptionally strong network across infrastructure providers, investors, regulators, and operators. Because we are deeply plugged into the market on a daily basis, we can quickly judge:
whether a development is signal or noise
why it matters now
and what it means specifically for your business, infrastructure, and strategy
We don’t replace your internal teams or add headcount.
We bring experience, judgment, and market context that help your teams move faster and with more confidence.
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Newsletters and generic research are built for broad audiences. We work the other way around.
Everything we deliver is:
tailored to your strategy, infrastructure, and decision horizon
filtered for what actually matters to you
and enriched with insight drawn from direct conversations across the ecosystem
We don’t summarize the market.
We interpret it, contextualize it, and translate it into implications for your organization.
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Engagements typically run on a retainer basis, reflecting:
the level of customization
senior involvement
and ongoing access to intelligence, advisory, and market context
Most clients compare this to:
building a senior, specialized internal research function
or relying on multiple external vendors
In that context, the model is usually more efficient, faster, and lower-risk than hiring or assembling fragmented inputs.
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Highly tailored, highly senior, and very direct.
There is no fixed “agency process.”
Every engagement is customized around your:
priorities
internal structure
decision cadence
and stakeholders
We work closely with your teams, challenge assumptions when needed, and focus on clarity over volume. Clients typically describe the experience as:
having a trusted external sparring partner
gaining early insight instead of late confirmation
and saving time while improving decision quality