Augur is an Ethereum-native decentralized oracle and prediction market protocol founded by Jack Peterson, Joey Krug, and Jeremy Gardner. Augur's Twitter Score is 251 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,525 (top 0.5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Augur conducted an initial coin offering in August 2015, raising $5,000,000 at $0.602 per REP token. The protocol is built on Ethereum and operates as an open-source, trustless, permissionless prediction market system. Augur v2 was released in July 2020, introducing DAI trading, faster resolution, and tradeable Invalid outcomes. In July 2018, the CFTC noted that Augur contracts resembled binary options, which would fall under its regulatory jurisdiction. Augur was previously developed by Forecast Foundation OÜ.
Augur is currently backed by the Lituus Foundation, with two live development streams active as of April 2026, signaling that the project is no longer dormant. Augur is also affiliated with Lituus Labs and Dark Florists, and Micah Zoltu is a community member. In April 2026, Augur entered a four-month fork process triggered by an Artemis II market dispute initiated for testing purposes.
Augur has accumulated 145,211 followers as of August 2026 and published 3,470 posts on the platform. Augur has been mentioned by 943 accounts, with 2,543 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Augur include 971 founders, 239 angel investors, 281 influencers and 31 VCs. Among them are Balaji, vitalik.eth, Erik Voorhees, jesse.base.eth, Laura Shin and Stani.