DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and multi-chain Web3 developer incentive platform that began as a hobbyist hacker community in 2014 and grew into a public-goods funding infrastructure for the global hacker movement. DoraHacks's Twitter Score is 76 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #12,532 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
DoraHacks was co-founded by Eric Zhang and Penny Wang. The platform evolved from a local hacker community into a global hackathon organizer around 2017, and has since built out a suite of tools for developer grants, quadratic funding, and decentralized governance. Dora Factory develops infrastructure for open-source funding, decentralized governance, public-good staking, and grant programs, with some components integrated into DoraHacks.io and others developed independently. DoraHacks's standard quadratic-funding smart contract was used for Dora Factory's first community quadratic-funding round on Ethereum mainnet.
DoraHacks has attracted significant backing from major crypto investors. Binance Labs made an $8 million strategic investment in November 2021, alongside an agreement to co-host a Binance Labs incubation-program round. In May 2022, DoraHacks announced a $20 million Series B1 round led by FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures, with participation from Circle Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Crypto.com Capital, Amber Group, and Sky9 Capital.
DoraHacks reported reaching 10,000 registered BUIDL teams on its platform in July 2024, with 160,000 developers behind those teams as of September 2024. A BUIDL is defined by DoraHacks as a hacker team registered on DoraHacks.io. DoraHacks has posted 10,088 times and has 39,501 followers as of July 2026. DoraHacks has been mentioned by 481 accounts, with 1,456 total mentions.
DoraHacks launched Dora Ventures II in 2023 as a strategic venture arm dedicated to its Appchain Thesis, and in September 2024 announced Bazaar Fund, a venture arm intended to provide early checks and resources to founders emerging from its hackathons. The Dora Research site has continued publishing work on Dora Vota, anonymous MACI, post-quantum security, and frontier technologies. DoraHacks's portfolio includes Dora Factory, SClaunch, WeStarter, XDeFiProtocolStack, IZUMi Finance, Fairblock, Cryptosat and INTMAX Main.
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The accounts that follow DoraHacks include 284 founders, 69 angel investors, 144 influencers and 56 VCs. Among them are H.E. Justin Sun, Mario Nawfal, Andy, Operation Epic CMS, Matthew Graham and Austin Griffith.