OnlyDust is an open-source funding platform that distributed grants to contributors before pivoting to Ctrl+G, an AI cybersecurity data lab, after concluding that the core bottleneck had shifted from funding to security. OnlyDust's Twitter Score is 29 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #38,562 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
OnlyDust was founded by Greg and Paco. Over its run, the platform distributed $18M in grants to 4,000 contributors across four years, first through committees and later through an agent allocating $1M monthly. The model ran into a structural problem: low-skill contributors began flooding projects with AI-generated code, prompting maintainers to reject the platform's money and close off external contributions entirely. That breakdown effectively ended the OnlyDust chapter.
OnlyDust is now affiliated with Ctrl+G, which builds data foundations for agents that autonomously defend systems against threats. The pivot reflects the conclusion that AI-generated code has made security, not funding, the frontier problem in open-source software. OnlyDust has published 2,321 posts on the platform. OnlyDust has been mentioned by 41 accounts, with 120 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow OnlyDust include 135 founders, 41 angel investors, 64 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Larry Cermak, sassal.ethacc, Mario Nawfal, John Wang, Matthew Graham and Austin Griffith.