COLONY 🔺 (@Colonylab) — Twitter Score 32 out of 1000

COLONY is a decentralized fundraising and community-driven accelerator platform that was founded by Elie Le Rest to deploy capital into early-stage Avalanche ecosystem projects, and has announced it is closing after five years of exclusively building within that ecosystem. COLONY's Twitter Score is 32 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #30,297 (top 10%) among 485,821 tracked accounts.

COLONY described itself as a community-driven fund evolving toward a DAO structure, with a product suite that included an Early-Stage Program, a decentralized exchange, the Colony Avalanche Index ($CAI), validator rewards, Liquid Vesting, and Avalanche DeFi liquidity positions. Its governance and ecosystem-access token, $CLY, carried a total supply of 150,000,000 tokens, and combined seed, private, IDO, and IEO sales raised $21,000,000. Staking $CLY unlocked access to seed and private-sale opportunities, project-token airdrops, AVAX incentives, and a share of platform fees. COLONY also operated Avalanche validator nodes using an AVAX treasury position, directing a substantial majority of resulting AVAX rewards to $CLY stakers.

COLONY raised over $1 million in an initial seed round co-led by GBV Capital, Foresight Ventures, and the Avalanche Foundation, per its October 2021 announcement. A subsequent round reported by Cointelegraph in November 2021 brought in $18.5 million, led by the Avalanche Foundation with participation from Shima Capital, HashKey Capital, GBV Capital, and Bixin Ventures. Additional backers previously included Foresight Ventures, Avalaunch, Yield Yak, NGC Ventures, ZBS Capital, Spark Digital Capital, MEXC Global, Synaps, and Avatar.

COLONY has announced a platform shutdown, instructing users to withdraw funds before the application sunset on July 1, 2026, after which the interface will be discontinued. The underlying smart contracts, including those for CLY governance, staking, vesting, liquidity pools, and CAI, will remain directly accessible, with COLONY having published the verified contract addresses for users who wish to continue interacting with them directly. COLONY's account has published 2,880 posts and has 38,538 followers as of September 2026. COLONY has been mentioned by 109 accounts a total of 541 times.

COLONY's portfolio includes ImperiumEmpires, HeroesLabs, Dexalot, Lost Worlds - geoNFTs, Ascenders, Deliq, Pulsar and TimeShuffle.

Who follows COLONY on X?

The accounts that follow COLONY include 123 founders, 34 angel investors, 81 influencers and 20 VCs. Among them are Mario Nawfal, Emin Gn Sirer, Andy, Matthew Graham, Avalanche and Josh Ong.