Mad Lads is a Solana NFT collection affiliated with Backpack that reached the top position among NFT collections on Solana after launching in April 2023. Mad Lads's Twitter Score is 242 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,828 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Mad Lads consists of 9,000 Lads and 1,000 Lassies minted on Solana. The collection is closely tied to Backpack, which announced the acquisition of FTX EU in January 2025 for just over 30 million euros. Backpack previously lost 88% of its corporate treasury on FTX in November 2022.
Mad Lads holders have been directly integrated into Backpack's broader ecosystem. At the token generation event for $BP, Backpack's native token, allocations were distributed to Backpack Points participants and Mad Lads NFT holders. Mad Lads has 104,174 followers as of July 2026 and 2,686 posts, and has been mentioned by 561 accounts a total of 3,215 times.
Who follows Mad Lads on X?
The accounts that follow Mad Lads include 646 founders, 144 angel investors, 889 influencers and 11 VCs, among them Toly, Solana, Ansem, Laura Shin, Raoul Pal and Luca Netz.