Alpen is a Bitcoin-native financial system and EVM-compatible validity rollup project that lets users borrow, earn interest, and spend in dollars using Bitcoin. Alpen's Twitter Score is 84 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #9,246 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Alpen is developed by Alpen Labs, which was co-founded by Simanta Gautam as CEO. The project is built as a work-in-progress EVM-compatible validity rollup on Bitcoin, using Bitcoin for both consensus and data availability. Alpen Labs raised an $8.5M Strategic Round announced on January 9, 2025, co-led by DBA and Cyber Fund, with additional backing from Ribbit Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Geometry, and others. Alpen's public testnet launched on August 4, 2025.
Alpen is closely affiliated with Strata, a protocol for verifying zero-knowledge proofs on Bitcoin that first powers the Alpen ecosystem. On October 15, 2025, Alpen Labs and the Starknet Foundation announced a collaboration to build a shared Glock verifier on Bitcoin, supported by a Starknet Foundation grant to Alpen Labs. Alpen also counts Anchorage Digital, Chaos Labs, LayerZero, Liquity, Paxos, and Valantis among its ecosystem affiliations.
Alpen has published 915 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 113 accounts a total of 261 times.
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The accounts that follow Alpen include 335 founders, 90 angel investors, 112 influencers and 9 VCs, among them Ansem, Laura Shin, Nic Carter, Hasu, David Hoffman and Tarun Chitra.