LAYER is an Ethereum-aligned decentralized application infrastructure project that builds WAVS, an event-driven framework for verifiable off-chain compute. LAYER's Twitter Score is 28 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #35,591 (top 10%) among 498,071 tracked accounts.
LAYER was co-founded by Sam Cassatt, Jake Hartnell as CEO, and Ethan Frey as CTO. The project raised $6 million in seed funding in October 2024, led by 1kx, with additional backing from Fabric Ventures, Arrington Capital, Stake Capital Group, Third Earth Capital, Founder Heads, and IOBC.
LAYER launched WAVS in April 2025 as a next-generation AVS platform designed for creating, managing, and operating Autonomous Verifiable Services. WAVS is secured by restaking through EigenLayer, positioning it within the broader Ethereum restaking ecosystem. LAYER has published 778 posts on the platform.
LAYER has been mentioned by 46 accounts, with 95 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow LAYER include 106 founders, 32 angel investors, 43 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Joseph Lubin, Mario Nawfal, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Gabriel Shapiro, 0xMaki and Sreeram Kannan.