Orchid is a decentralized marketplace for AI, storage, and bandwidth that powers a VPN and nanopayment ecosystem through its native OXT token. Orchid's Twitter Score is 93 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #8,432 (top 5%) among 504,780 tracked accounts.
Orchid was co-founded by Steve Bell, Steve Waterhouse, Gustav Simonsson, Jay Freeman, and Brian J. Fox, and is incorporated as a Delaware C-Corp under Orchid Labs Inc. The project describes itself as providing the building blocks for a freer, more open internet, with OXT serving as an ERC-20 digital asset whose total supply is fixed at one billion units. Providers stake OXT to compete for user payment flow within the network. Orchid is affiliated with Orchid Technologies, and its advisors include Gavin Wood and Dan Boneh.
Orchid raised $4.7 million in seed funding via a SAFT from investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Polychain Capital, alongside DFJ, Metastable, Blockchain Capital, Crunchfund, Struck Capital, and Compound VC. Orchid Labs Inc. also filed a Form D notice with the SEC for an exempt offering of $125,595,882. The project's probabilistic rollups were running on Avalanche as of June 2022. Orchid has been mentioned by 289 accounts, with 631 total mentions.
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Orchid attracts a broad range of notable followers across the crypto and technology space. The accounts that follow Orchid include 280 founders, 72 angel investors, 137 influencers and 22 VCs. Among them are Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Toly, Fred Ehrsam, Tyler Winklevoss and Eric Wall.