Governor Jared Polis is the Governor of Colorado and one of the most crypto-engaged elected officials in the United States, known for advancing blockchain policy at the state level. Governor Jared Polis's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #39,534 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Governor Jared Polis previously served as a U.S. Representative at the U.S. House of Representatives, where he demonstrated early interest in digital assets. As a sitting congressman in 2014, he launched a website to accept bitcoin campaign contributions shortly after the Federal Election Commission permitted small political donations in the currency, with TIME reporting he was the first to do so under the new FEC guidelines. He also co-founded the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, a bipartisan group focused on blockchain policy at the federal level.
Governor Jared Polis has carried that pro-blockchain orientation into his role as Governor. He signed Colorado SB19-023, the Colorado Digital Token Act, on March 6, 2019, creating limited securities-law exemptions for persons dealing in digital tokens. In 2022, Colorado became one of the first states to allow residents to pay state taxes, including individual income tax, business income tax, sales and use tax, withholding tax, severance tax, and excise fuel tax, using cryptocurrency, with payments converted to U.S. dollars before reaching the state treasury. That program went live in September 2022. Governor Jared Polis has also explored using a distributed ledger for Colorado's cattle-brand registry, arguing it could improve efficiency, reduce costs, and support law-enforcement access, and has suggested that Colorado's cooperative statutes could make the state hospitable to decentralized autonomous organizations.
Governor Jared Polis appeared at ETHDenver in February 2022, presenting a vision for Colorado as the "first digital state" and describing blockchain as central to the state's innovation ecosystem. His 2022 reelection campaign raised funds through NFTs priced at $52.80 each, with 2,022 digital tokens issued on the Flow blockchain, per Axios. Governor Jared Polis told WIRED in 2022 that he held no financial position in crypto and did not maintain an active wallet due to his policymaking role. Governor Jared Polis's account has 230,178 followers as of August 2026 and has published 9,350 posts. Governor Jared Polis has been mentioned by 153 accounts a total of 470 times.
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The accounts that follow Governor Jared Polis include 82 founders, 17 angel investors, 21 influencers and 2 VCs. Among them are vitalik.eth, Erik Voorhees, Toly, CoinDesk, Jesse Powell and Jason.