Cygnus is a Web3 protocol that positions itself as the first Instagram App Layer, combining on-chain and off-chain assets to serve the creator economy by using Instagram accounts as Web3 wallets. Cygnus's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #38,253 (top 10%) among 481,263 tracked accounts.
Cygnus announced a $20 million pre-seed round backed by OKX Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Manifold Trading, and the Optimism Foundation. The project was verified as a Meta technology provider in February 2025, a step that underpins its approach to onboarding mainstream social media users into Web3.
Cygnus issues cgUSD, an ERC-20 rebasing token backed by U.S. Treasury bills and deployed on Base. Its live application spans markets and vault integrations across Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Arbitrum, TON, BNB Chain, Bitlayer, B² Network, Hemi, and Sonic SVM, reflecting a broadly omnichain deployment strategy. Cygnus is also affiliated with the Optimism Superchain and Axelar Network. The account has published 1,531 posts and has 282,241 followers as of August 2026, and has been mentioned by 98 accounts a total of 325 times.
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The accounts that follow Cygnus include 70 founders, 13 angel investors, 74 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Mario Nawfal, Sky, Circle, Wormhole, KuCoin and zac.eth.