Inception was a liquid-restaking protocol offering native and isolated liquid-restaking vaults, co-founded by João Simões, that announced the winding down of all products and operations in 2025. Inception's Twitter Score is 36 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #26,495 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Inception completed a $3.5 million seed round on January 24, 2025. Shortly after, the project announced it was disabling new positions beginning July 10, 2025, and advised users to close existing positions by September 1, 2025. The InceptionLRT Foundation was placed into voluntary liquidation on August 28, 2025, with the protocol's official site stating that operations wound down effective December 31, 2025. A litepaper had proposed an ING governance token, but no transferable token was ever launched.
Inception had previously been affiliated with EigenLayer, Symbiotic, Mellow, and SSV Network as part of its restaking ecosystem integrations. Inception has 20,730 followers as of September 2026 and has published 7,326 posts. Inception has been mentioned by 118 accounts a total of 270 times.
Inception's portfolio includes Amphor.io.
Who follows Inception on X?
The accounts that follow Inception include 87 founders, 32 angel investors, 92 influencers and 10 VCs. Among them are Mario Nawfal, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Andy, MoonPay, Nader Dabit and Zach Rynes.