DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi publicly accused Blockworks of reselling DeFiLlama’s free on-chain data through a paid analytics product priced at about $4,500 per year, a claim that quickly drew attention on X. The accusation came the same day Blockworks co-founder Jason Yanowitz said the company would shut down its news division and become a software-and-data business, which made the dispute especially pointed because it centered on Blockworks’ new strategic direction. The background matters because DeFiLlama is widely used as a free, open-source DeFi analytics platform that tracks TVL, protocol rankings, chain activity, and related metrics across thousands of protocols and hundreds of blockchains. Blockworks, meanwhile, has long operated as a crypto media and research company and also offers paid data products and API metrics, so the accusation raises broader questions about data sourcing, attribution, and whether media firms turning into software businesses can commercialize third-party or community-built market data without conflict.

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