Espresso is a blockchain infrastructure network that provides real-time settlement and sub-second finality for sovereign and app-specific chains. Espresso's Twitter Score is 246 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,589 (top 0.5%) among 482,619 tracked accounts.
Espresso was founded by Ben Fisch and develops infrastructure for applications requiring ownership, control, customization, and interoperability across chains. Its network is built on modular BFT consensus, designed to deliver high throughput, fast finality, and native cross-chain connectivity. Espresso is a member of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust.
Espresso's mainnet 1.0 is live, with more than 20 million transactions processed, more than $300 million in total value secured, and an average finality time of 3 seconds. Teams including Arbitrum, Celo, ApeChain, Morph Chain, Rari Chain, and LitVM have built on the network. The public GitHub HotShot repository was archived by the owner in February 2025.
Espresso is backed by a16z crypto, Sequoia, Electric Capital, Polychain Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. The account has published 3,802 posts and has 150,016 followers as of August 2026. Espresso has been mentioned by 583 accounts a total of 1,941 times.
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The accounts that follow Espresso include 871 founders, 263 angel investors, 433 influencers and 19 VCs, among them Toly, Chris Dixon, Ansem, Laura Shin, Chris Burniske and Hasu.