Manta Network is a modular Ethereum Layer 2 and zero-knowledge blockchain ecosystem comprising Manta Pacific, an EVM-native modular L2, and Manta Atlantic, a ZK L1 on Polkadot. MANTA is the native token used across the ecosystem. The project was co-founded by Kenny Li, Victor Ji, and Shumo Chu, and is affiliated with p0x Labs, the developer entity that raised $25 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation. Manta Network's Twitter Score is 240 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026.
Manta Network is backed by Binance Labs, Polychain Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, Alliance, CoinFund, and SevenX Ventures. Binance announced MANTA on Binance Launchpool in January 2024. On the technical side, Manta Pacific integrated Celestia for data availability and announced a transition toward a ZK-powered Layer 2 using Polygon CDK. Around its January 2024 token listing, Cointelegraph reported that Manta Network experienced a distributed denial-of-service attack. Manta Network has 717,914 followers as of August 2026 and 9,044 posts, ranks #1,661 (top 0.5%) out of 483,652 tracked accounts on TwitterScore, and is mentioned by 1,034 accounts across a total of 4,564 mentions.
Manta Network's portfolio includes Ultiverse, DIN, Elfin Metaverse, Yooldo, KiloEx, CYCLE NETWORK, junk.fun and Dropnest.
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