Dominik Schiener is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded IOTA, the distributed ledger project launched in 2015 alongside David Sønstebø, Sergey Ivancheglo, and Serguei Popov, with initial development funded through a public crowdsale that raised approximately 1,300 BTC. Dominik Schiener's Twitter Score is 66 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #14,690 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Dominik Schiener co-founded IOTA as a distributed ledger protocol designed for machine-to-machine transactions and the broader Internet of Things economy. He remains affiliated with the IOTA Foundation, the IOTA Ecosystem DLT Foundation, the Tangle Ecosystem Association, and iotalabs, continuing to build out the sovereign digital infrastructure described in his public profile.
Dominik Schiener's tenure with IOTA has included navigating significant security incidents. In January 2018, more than US$10 million worth of IOTA tokens were reported stolen from users who had relied on a malicious online seed generator, with UK and German law enforcement arresting a suspect in January 2019. Separately, in February 2020, a wallet-related attack prompted the IOTA Foundation to shut down its coordinator node, halting the entire IOTA network until it was restored on 10 March 2020. Dominik Schiener has accumulated 71,157 followers as of July 2026 across 6,924 posts, and has been mentioned by 129 accounts a total of 594 times.
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