KYVE is a decentralized blockchain data-validation, archival, and retrieval network built as a Cosmos SDK Layer 1, co-founded by Fabian Riewe and John Letey. KYVE's Twitter Score is 57 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #15,153 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
KYVE originated as a bounty project bridging Arweave data with Cosmos infrastructure before evolving into a sovereign Layer 1 blockchain. Its mainnet and token-generation event launched on March 14, 2023. The project is affiliated with the KYVE Foundation and describes itself as built for the next generation of decentralized storage.
KYVE has raised capital across multiple rounds. An initial pre-seed round of $1 million was led by Permanent Ventures, which also co-led a second round alongside Hypersphere Ventures; that second round also included a grant from the Mina Foundation. A third round raised $9 million, led by Distributed Global, Wicklow Capital, Anagram, Cerulean Ventures, and others including IOSG Ventures, Huobi Incubator, and MEXC. Additional backers include 4SV, Compute Ventures, D1 Ventures, Volt Capital, Zee Prime Capital, Composable Finance, and others.
KYVE has been active on protocol governance, with Proposal #43 approving a planned merger of its Consensus and Protocol staking layers, targeted for March 2025. The account has published 3,753 posts and has been mentioned by 200 accounts a total of 625 times.
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The accounts that follow KYVE include 214 founders, 65 angel investors, 106 influencers and 17 VCs, among them Toly, Ansem, Kyle Samani, Andrew Kang, Santiago R Santos and Andy.