The Crypto Illuminati is a crypto education and research community that serves as the education DAO of Momentum 6, founded by Shiv Sakhuja and Kadeem Clarke. The Crypto Illuminati's Twitter Score is 43 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #21,736 (top 5%) among 486,573 tracked accounts.
The Crypto Illuminati was originally introduced as The DeFi Illuminati, a free hub and newsletter curating DeFi content, tools, learning tracks, and community resources. Momentum 6 later launched the project under its current name in partnership with Shiv Sakhuja, positioning it as the educational arm of the broader M6 Labs ecosystem alongside the Crypto Pragmatist newsletter. The community described itself as a DAO built around community-sourced knowledge and curated crypto education.
The Crypto Illuminati has published research threads spanning DeFi, DAO governance, modular blockchains, zero-knowledge technology, stablecoins, and on-chain portfolio analysis. The account has also summarized third-party findings, including Chainalysis research on governance-token concentration and DAO treasury composition. Its newsletter began publishing in September 2022 and was authored by Momentum 6. Current profile metadata directs readers toward M6 Labs and the Crypto Pragmatist newsletter rather than an independently maintained publication. The Crypto Illuminati has accumulated 13,928 followers as of September 2026 and published 5,631 posts since 2022. The account has been mentioned by 11 accounts, with 21 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow The Crypto Illuminati include 151 founders, 51 angel investors, 109 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Murad, Loomdart, Intern, Darren Lau, Delphi Digital and Andy.