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David A. Johnston (@DJohnstonEC) — Twitter Score 127 out of 1000
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127Ranked #4,934 of 486,860 crypto accounts tracked by TwitterScore.io
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About David A. Johnston's Twitter Score
David A. Johnston is a crypto AI and decentralization researcher who created the DApps framework and co-authored the foundational General Theory of Decentralized Applications paper. David A. Johnston's Twitter Score is 127 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #4,934 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
David A. Johnston created the DApps framework in 2013, establishing an early conceptual foundation for decentralized applications, and co-authored the 2014 paper "The General Theory of Decentralized Applications, DApps." He currently serves as AI Chief at BasedAI, a decentralized peer-to-peer network for zero-knowledge large language models that employs Fully Homomorphic Encryption alongside a mining and validation architecture. The network uses the $BASED token for rewards and staking, and was developed in collaboration with the founding team of Pepecoin, which is used for acquiring Brains and governance within the network.
David A. Johnston is also an open-source maintainer for MorpheusAI, an AI infrastructure project offering an OpenAI-compatible inference API, decentralized infrastructure, and MOR rewards and staking for inference. His work spans both the architectural design of decentralized systems and the practical development of AI-integrated blockchain networks. He has also developed the "Smart Agents" architecture, introduced in 2023, extending his earlier DApps thinking into AI-native decentralized systems. David A. Johnston's account has 11,299 followers as of September 2026 and 11,768 posts, and has been mentioned by 193 accounts a total of 477 times.
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The accounts that follow David A. Johnston include 544 founders, 123 angel investors, 165 influencers and 19 VCs, among them Balaji, Erik Voorhees, Stani, Anthony Pompliano, Joseph Lubin and David Hoffman.
