Obyte is a decentralized, block-free cryptocurrency network and smart-contract platform built on a directed acyclic graph rather than a conventional blockchain. Obyte's Twitter Score is 9.0 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #102,525 among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Obyte was founded by Anton (Tony) Churyumov, who serves as its Lead Developer. Originally launched under the name Byteball, with its mainnet going live on December 25, 2016, the project rebranded to Obyte in January 2019. Because the architecture uses no miners or block producers, transactions are ordered through a DAG structure rather than mined blocks, removing a class of intermediaries common to most cryptocurrency networks. The native currency is Byte, with GBYTE as the exchange-traded unit; total supply was fixed at launch.
Obyte supports user-issued assets, conditional payments, and smart contracts written in Oscript. Its programmable layer, called Autonomous Agents, became active in February 2020. The broader ecosystem spans ODEX, bonded stablecoins, the Counterstake cross-chain bridge, Oswap, Prophet prediction markets, ArbStore escrow, and Pythagorean perpetual futures. Obyte is also affiliated with Kava.
Obyte is affiliated with the Obyte Foundation, a charitable foundation registered in Liechtenstein in 2019 and funded primarily through founder donations, which provides ecosystem grants. Community governance and spam-protection mechanisms were introduced in November 2024, and the first order provider was selected through that governance process in March 2025. Obyte has been mentioned by 18 accounts a total of 63 times. Obyte has published 3,196 posts on the platform and has 14,199 followers as of September 2026.
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The accounts that follow Obyte include 40 founders, 11 angel investors and 28 influencers. Among them are Jake Brukhman, Matthew Graham, Notsofast, Tim Copeland, Spencer Bogart and Ram Ahluwalia CFA, Lumida.