Yano 🟪 (@JasonYanowitz) — Twitter Score 738 out of 1000

Yano is Jason Yanowitz, who co-founded Blockworks alongside Mike Ippolito, building it from a crypto events business into a media, research, and data company with over $30 million in annual revenue and 85 employees. Yano's Twitter Score is 738 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #93 (top 0.1%) out of 493,668 accounts tracked on this platform. He joined in 2013 and has accumulated 129,739 followers as of October 2026 across 16,966 posts.

Yano co-founded Blockworks in 2017, and the company has been profitable every year but one since then. Blockworks raised $12 million at a $135 million valuation in May 2023, led by 10T Holdings, with participation from Framework Ventures and Santiago Santos. In April 2026, Blockworks closed a Series A extension at a $192 million valuation, co-led by ParaFi Capital and Reciprocal Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Advancit Capital, MoonPay Ventures, and over 20 founders and operators from projects including Solana, Jito, LayerZero, Arbitrum, Kraken, EigenLayer, Polygon, ZKsync, Berachain, and Pudgy Penguins. In June 2026, Blockworks acquired Messari for over $10 million, combining two of the largest crypto data platforms. Messari had previously been valued at $300 million in 2022.

Yano hosts the Empire Podcast alongside Santiago Santos, releasing two episodes per week, with guest interviews on Mondays and a weekly roundup on Fridays. The Blockworks podcast roster recorded 21 million downloads in the prior year. Yano has been mentioned by 608 accounts a total of 1,319 times.

Yano's portfolio includes Ejara, Astria, Fluent, Infinex, Rome, Rio Network, OMEGA and Blueprint Finance.

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Yano draws a wide range of notable followers from across the crypto industry. The accounts that follow Yano include 2,746 founders, 702 angel investors, 1,137 influencers and 49 VCs, among them CZ BNB, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Toly, ZachXBT and Ansem.