Coop is Cooper Turley, a Web3 music entrepreneur who founded Coop Records, a hybrid venture fund, record label, and incubator focused on music and blockchain, and co-founded Friends With Benefits DAO. Coop's Twitter Score is 652 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #148 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked, with 313,695 followers as of July 2026 and 39,882 posts on the platform.
Coop assisted in launching tokens for several protocols, including ENS ($ENS), SuperRare ($RARE), Gitcoin ($GTC), and Audius ($AUDIO), which collectively reached an aggregate valuation exceeding $10 billion. He was formerly an advisor to Audius, where he led crypto community and tokenomics work, including the AUDIO governance token, stablecoin payments, and social tokens for top creators. He previously worked at Variant Fund as a Venture Partner. He also authored the This Week in DeFi newsletter and contributed writing to Bankless, The Defiant, CoinDesk, and TechCrunch, and was named to Fortune's NFTy 50 list in 2021.
Coop raised $10 million for Coop Records Fund I in September 2022. The Coop Records platform subsequently raised $4.5 million across two funding rounds, with investors including 1kx, Nascent, 1confirmation, and CB Ventures (Base Ecosystem Fund), with the most recent round closing in September 2025. By summer 2025, the platform had released over 750 tracks across more than 200 artists and built a community of nearly 125,000 collectors, with artists generating nearly $2 million through the platform. The label introduced a Songcoins feature with artists including Sanholo and blond_ish, and partnered with Sony's Soneium blockchain platform.
Coop was removed from Friends With Benefits DAO leadership in January 2022 following the resurfacing of bigoted tweets from 2011 to 2014, and subsequently stepped down from Variant Fund. Beyond his platform and investment work, he is an active DJ performing shows under the Coop Records brand, including events in Tokyo and Osaka in 2025 and 2026, and has announced plans to establish a base in Japan.
Coop has been mentioned by 726 accounts, with 1,619 total mentions across the platform.
Coop's tracked portfolio includes Zerion, Set Labs, Syndicate, OpenCastle, Arpeggi Labs, Catalog, GALLERY and Parcel.
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Coop draws a following from across the crypto and music space. The accounts that follow Coop include 2,059 founders, 546 angel investors, 1,312 influencers and 71 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Laura Shin, jesse.base.eth, Toly, Balaji and ZachXBT.