Santiment

Santiment is a leading crypto market intelligence platform founded in 2016, specializing in behavioral analytics and data-driven insights for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Operating as Santiment AG and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, the company was established with a mission to eliminate information asymmetry in crypto markets by providing reliable, actionable data to hedge fund managers, institutional traders, retail investors, crypto project owners, and NFT creators.

Core Products/Services

Santiment offers a comprehensive suite of analytics tools built on its proprietary data infrastructure:

• Sanbase: The flagship analytics and behavior platform providing in-depth coin analysis, low-latency signals, asset watchlists, custom alerts, screeners, and dashboards. Sanbase integrates social, on-chain, financial, and development metrics into a single interface.
• SanAPI: A GraphQL-based API providing institutional-grade access to Santiment's full data stack — including on-chain, social, development activity, and price/volume data — for quant pipelines, trading models, and data lake integrations. Available in Business Pro, Business Max, and Enterprise tiers.
• Sansheets: A Google Sheets plugin that gives users direct access to on-chain, social, development activity, prices, and volume data from within spreadsheets, enabling custom analysis without coding.
• Sangraphs: A curated set of public dashboard visualizations covering key metrics like MVRV, MakerDAO network activity, and social data.

Key Strengths

Santiment's data platform covers 2,500+ crypto assets across 12+ blockchains with 1,100+ metrics. The platform is recognized as the market leader in sentiment metrics in digital assets since 2014, and was the first provider of developer activity data (GitHub analytics) for the crypto industry since 2017. Santiment aggregates and processes 3+ million parsed social messages monthly, with 75+ million labelled ETH addresses and 65+ million labelled BTC addresses. Historical data coverage extends back to 2009, enabling backtesting of long-term strategies.

The platform combines machine-processed data streams (price/volume, on-chain, GitHub activity, holder behavior, social media, crowd sentiment) with human analyst insights through a team of 54 experts spanning 19 countries.

Notable Clients/Projects

Santiment serves hedge fund managers, institutional investors, quant researchers, DeFi analysts, and crypto project owners. The platform is used for trading signal generation, portfolio management, market research, and on-chain due diligence. Enterprise clients can negotiate data reselling rights agreements and custom SLAs.

Why Choose Santiment

Santiment provides a unique combination of social sentiment data (the earliest and most comprehensive in the industry), on-chain behavioral analytics, and developer activity metrics — all in one platform. Unlike generic data providers, Santiment focuses specifically on behavior analytics: understanding the buying, holding, and selling activity of key stakeholder groups such as whales, retail investors, and protocol developers. This behavioral lens enables users to identify market turning points, detect unusual activity, and contextualize price movements with meaningful on-chain and social context.