Grove is a defunct creator-payment platform that was co-founded by Michael O'Rourke, Valeria Benitez Florez, Pabel Nunez, and Luis de Leon, and announced it was winding down after nine years of operation. Grove's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #45,513 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Grove began as Pocket Network Inc. and served as the original development team and first gateway operator for Pocket Network, a role it no longer holds. The team built two versions of the Pocket Network protocol along with its first gateway, Grove Portal, which settled more than a trillion requests across more than 60 blockchains. Pocket Network continues independently as a permissionless network stewarded by the Pocket Network Foundation, which Grove was also formerly affiliated with.
Grove raised $7.9 million in a funding round announced in November 2023, having previously closed a $10 million strategic private sale announced in January 2022 while operating as Pocket Network Inc. Backers across these rounds included Avon Ventures, Placeholder VC, Druid Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Permanent Ventures, Arrington Capital, C² Ventures, CoinShares, Decentral Park Capital, Dominance Ventures, RockTree Capital, and Republic Capital.
Grove pivoted away from infrastructure and launched a creator-payment platform enabling humans and agents to pay creators directly, becoming an early adopter of Coinbase's x402 internet-payment protocol. During roughly five months of operation, the platform saw nearly 1,000 fans pay more than 400 creators over 6,000 times. Grove subsequently announced it was winding down. The account has published 1,263 posts and has been mentioned by 30 accounts a total of 259 times.
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Grove draws a following from across the crypto and technology space. The accounts that follow Grove include 69 founders, 16 angel investors, 46 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Andrew Kang, John Wang, Mario Nawfal, Andy, 0xMaki and DEGEN NEWS.