Minterest was a cross-chain DeFi lending and borrowing protocol that allowed users to supply and borrow token assets through algorithmically managed liquidity pools, and is now permanently shut down. Minterest's Twitter Score is 21 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #52,250 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Minterest was founded by Josh Rogers, who served as its CEO until departing after the original operating company, Minterest Labs OÜ, exhausted its runway in early 2023. A private fundraising round announced in September 2021 raised $6.5 million from investors including KR1, DFG, CMS, DigiStrats, FOMOcraft, Bitscale Capital, PNYX Ventures, CMT Digital, and Faculty Capital.
Minterest suffered a security breach on July 14, 2024, when a reentrancy vulnerability in its Mantle deployment was exploited, resulting in the loss of $1.4 million in mETH and WETH. Following that incident and an inability to sustain operations, the protocol sunset all deployments. Its UI is no longer accessible, and new deposits, rewards, and emissions are no longer supported. Minterest has published 2,818 posts and has been mentioned by 80 accounts a total of 307 times.
Who follows Minterest on X?
The accounts that follow Minterest include 71 founders, 25 angel investors, 97 influencers and 27 VCs, among them Mario Nawfal, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, 0xMaki, Andy, Matthew Graham and Zmanian.