We’re building the social intelligence layer

LunarCrush turns the world’s social conversations into structured, real-time intelligence. For traders, analysts, developers, and AI agents. We process what billions of people say, and make it useful.

Social data is the most underutilized signal in markets and culture. We exist to change that.

Our Story

LunarCrush started with a simple observation: markets move on narrative, and narrative lives on social media. Before a coin pumps, the conversation shifts. Before a stock tanks, sentiment turns. The signal is there. The problem is that it’s buried in millions of posts, across multiple platforms, mixed with noise and spam.

We built LunarCrush to solve that. We ingest social data from X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and news outlets. We filter spam, weight by creator influence, analyze sentiment, and deliver clean, structured intelligence in real time. What started as a tool for crypto traders has grown into a comprehensive social intelligence platform covering 4,000+ cryptocurrencies, 2,000+ stocks, and 50+ categories spanning sports, entertainment, fashion, technology, and culture.

Today, LunarCrush serves two worlds simultaneously. Humans use our platform to explore, discover, and make decisions. Machines connect through our API and MCP server to add social perception to autonomous systems. We’re not a dashboard company. We’re not an analytics tool. We’re an intelligence layer that sits between social media and decision-making.

We’re a small, distributed team that operates with the conviction that we’re building something foundational. The way Bloomberg defined financial data infrastructure, we’re defining the social intelligence infrastructure. Every day, the world tells you what it thinks. We make sure you hear it.

The data behind the intelligence

We process the full social firehose, filter the noise, and deliver signal. These numbers are live.

  • 100M+ Social posts processed daily — Across X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and news sources
  • 10M+ Creators indexed — With influence scores, posting patterns, and engagement quality metrics
  • 6,000+ Assets and topics tracked — Crypto, stocks, ETFs, sports, music, brands, celebrities, and more

Key milestones

From crypto social tracker to the social intelligence layer.

  • 2018 — Founded — Joe Vezzani founds LunarCrush with the thesis that social media activity is a leading indicator for crypto markets. The first version tracks sentiment and mentions for top cryptocurrencies.
  • 2020 — Galaxy Score™ and AltRank™ launch — Proprietary scoring algorithms go live, combining social metrics with market data into actionable intelligence. LunarCrush becomes a go-to tool for the crypto community.
  • 2022 — Beyond crypto — Expansion into stocks, ETFs, and non-financial categories. LunarCrush begins tracking social intelligence for sports, entertainment, brands, and culture.
  • 2024 — API v4 and developer platform — Full REST API release for developers and institutions. LunarCrush positions itself as infrastructure, not just a consumer product.
  • 2025 — MCP integration with Claude — LunarCrush becomes one of the first social data providers to integrate with Anthropic’s Claude through MCP, enabling AI agents to access real-time social intelligence natively.
  • 2026 — The Social Intelligence Layer — LunarCrush redefines itself as the social intelligence layer for both humans and autonomous systems. 50+ categories, 6 platforms, and millions of data points processed daily.

The principles behind the product

These aren’t slogans. They’re the decisions we make every day when building.

  • Social data is financial data — The conversation around an asset is as important as its price chart. Sentiment shifts before price moves. Engagement patterns signal momentum. Social is not noise; it’s the leading indicator most people ignore.
  • Intelligence, not just data — Raw data is useless at scale. We process, filter spam, weight by influence, analyze sentiment, and deliver structured intelligence. The value isn’t in the volume. It’s in the processing.
  • Built for machines and humans — The next decade will be defined by systems that can perceive, reason, and act. We build for both the human analyst exploring a dashboard and the autonomous agent making decisions through an API.
  • Coverage is a moat — Anyone can scrape a few hundred tokens from Twitter. We track 6 platforms, 6,000+ topics, 10M+ creators, and process 100M+ posts daily. Comprehensive coverage, delivered consistently, is the real differentiator.

The people building it

Small team, big ambition. We’re distributed, focused, and deeply invested in the problem we’re solving.

  • Joe Vezzani, CEO, Co-Founder — Founded LunarCrush in 2018 with the thesis that social data is the most underutilized signal in markets. Leads company vision and strategy.
  • Dan Williams, CTO, Co-Founder — Leads engineering and the technical architecture behind LunarCrush. Drives the platform from analytics tool to intelligence infrastructure.
  • Jonathan Farjo, CPO, Co-Founder — Leads product strategy and the integration roadmap. Drives the evolution of LunarCrush into a comprehensive social intelligence platform.
  • Nicolás Bañados, Head of Design — Leads design, brand, and user experience across every LunarCrush product. Shapes how social intelligence looks, feels, and communicates.

Two paths, one intelligence layer

Whether you’re exploring visually or building programmatically, you’re accessing the same processed social intelligence.

  • LunarCrush Platform — Discover trending topics, explore ranked leaderboards, track creators, and build Custom Collections. No code required. Real-time social intelligence in a visual interface.
  • LunarCrush Intelligence — REST API, MCP Server for Claude and Claude Code, and full endpoint access to every social metric. Build dashboards, agents, monitoring pipelines, and data integrations.