Marlin is a verifiable compute protocol that provides TEE and ZK coprocessors for decentralized applications and AI, allowing computations to be delegated to trusted execution environment-based offchain microservices with proofs and attestations verified onchain. Marlin's Twitter Score is 66 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #16,287 (top 5%) among 473,418 tracked accounts.
Marlin was founded by Siddhartha, Prateesh, and Roshan. Its core product suite centers on two offerings: Oyster, a framework for building and deploying applications on TEEs, and Kalypso, a permissionless ZK proof marketplace. The protocol's native token, $POND, serves validator staking, governance, and network performance auditing. Marlin also coined the term "teeML" and has published benchmarks comparing teeML, opML, and zkML approaches to verifiable machine learning.
Marlin has attracted backing from several prominent crypto investors, including Arrington Capital, Binance Labs, Electric Capital, IOSG Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Continue Capital, Kenetic, and DHVC. Its ecosystem integrations span projects including SPACE ID, Gearbox, Arbitrum, Sui, PublicAI, Polygon, Injective, and Ankr. Marlin is also affiliated with io.net, Autonolas, Verida, and the ZkBoost Consortium. In November 2025, Marlin launched a free course titled "Offchain Computing Using TEE Coprocessors" in partnership with Binance Academy. Marlin's account has accumulated 52,844 followers as of July 2026 across 2,133 posts, and has been mentioned by 272 accounts, with 656 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Marlin include 232 founders, 71 angel investors, 176 influencers and 22 VCs, among them Luca Netz, Andrew Kang, Polygon, Mario Nawfal, Sandeep and John Wang.