Virtual Labs is a cryptography company that develops Virtual Rollups, a zero-knowledge state channel architecture designed to reduce web3 latency, gas costs, and wallet friction. Virtual Labs's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #44,344 (top 10%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Virtual Labs was founded by José Betancourt and originated from Ontropy, a self-verified oracle protocol, before pivoting to self-verified transactions after closing a pre-seed round. Virtual Rollups allow participating parties to sign state updates off-chain using zero-knowledge proofs, with users retaining self-custody and the ability to verify their own transactions independently.
Virtual Labs built VDEX as a live demonstration of Virtual Rollup 1.2. VDEX is an omnichain, self-custodial perpetual exchange currently in invite-only beta, with completed milestones including its beta launch, BTC perpetuals, leverage for BTC perpetuals, and Ethereum support. A published smart-contract audit has reviewed the VDEX smart-contract repository.
Virtual Labs is backed by Inception Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, Koyamaki Ventures, and WAGMi Ventures, among others listed as partners and backers on the official site, including Binance Labs, Bitlayer, NEAR, and Gate.io. Virtual Labs has been mentioned by 33 accounts a total of 134 times, and its account has published 2,762 posts.
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The accounts that follow Virtual Labs include 89 founders, 24 angel investors, 67 influencers and 4 VCs. Among them are John Wang, 0xMaki, Miles Deutscher, Josh Ong, Fxnction and VonDoom.