Curio is an onchain game studio, operating as the legal entity Curiosity Research, Inc., that builds competitive PvP games with Duper as its flagship title. Curio's Twitter Score is 77 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #10,331 (top 5%) among 483,288 tracked accounts.
Curio was founded by Kevin Zhang and has raised more than $8M in total funding, including a $2.9M round closed in February 2023 from Bain Capital Crypto, TCG Crypto, and others, to develop composable crypto games. The studio is listed as a Bain Capital Crypto portfolio company and is also backed by angel investors with backgrounds at Niantic and Funplus, per its website.
Curio launched Treaty in January 2023, a fully onchain strategy game in which players deploy smart contracts as in-game social treaties. In May 2023, the studio open-sourced Keystone, an experimental rollup and game-server framework built on the OP Stack designed for high-performance onchain games. Duper is a five-player free-for-all real-money social strategy game built by a team with experience at miHoYo, Niantic, Lilith Games, and ByteDance; it launched Season 4 on Abstract Chain in early 2025 and is currently in beta, with a full release targeted for June 2026.
Curio has accumulated 12,969 followers as of August 2026 across 160 posts. The account has been mentioned by 59 accounts a total of 87 times.
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The accounts that follow Curio include 283 founders, 103 angel investors, 103 influencers and 9 VCs. Among them are Murad, Tarun Chitra, sassal.ethacc, John Wang, Tom Schmidt and Alon.