Cymbal

Cymbal was a consumer blockchain data startup founded in 2022 in Menlo Park by Eric Feng, Nick Chang and others, building a "human readable" Ethereum block explorer with a visual, social interface and AI-generated conversational summaries of wallets, NFTs and transactions. The company raised $18.5M in 2023 from investors including First Round Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Ventures, Patron, Acrew and GV. In July 2025 Yahoo acqui-hired the Cymbal team into a new AI research group. Cymbal published no public developer API or documentation surface; this API Evangelist profile is a GV-portfolio company record.

Cymbal is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Blockchain, Ethereum, and Block Explorer.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConsumerBlockchainEthereumBlock ExplorerWeb3Crypto DataAcquired

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

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Company 1

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Website

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: Cymbal
description: Cymbal was a consumer blockchain data startup founded in 2022 in Menlo Park by Eric Feng, Nick Chang and others,
  building a "human readable" Ethereum block explorer with a visual, social interface and AI-generated conversational summaries
  of wallets, NFTs and transactions. The company raised $18.5M in 2023 from investors including First Round Capital, Coinbase
  Ventures, Solana Ventures, Patron, Acrew and GV. In July 2025 Yahoo acqui-hired the Cymbal team into a new AI research group.
  Cymbal published no public developer API or documentation surface; this API Evangelist profile is a GV-portfolio company
  record.
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x-source: vc-portfolio
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Yahoo
x-acquired-date: 2025-07
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Blockchain
- Ethereum
- Block Explorer
- Web3
- Crypto Data
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Website
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  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Cymbal

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Cymbal Domain Security

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Company 1

Source (apis.yml)