PIN AI is an open Personal AI Network that combines on-device AI, privacy-preserving compute, blockchain verification, and token incentives to give users control over their personal data and AI agents. PIN AI's Twitter Score is 41 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #24,554 (top 10%) among 487,700 tracked accounts.
PIN AI was co-founded by Davide Crapis, leading protocol research, Ben Wu, and Bill Sun, who serves as Chief AI Scientist. The project announced $10 million in pre-seed funding in September 2024 to build an open-source Personal Intelligence Network. Its architecture relies on a Layer-2 blockchain to connect privacy-protected user data across apps and devices, with smart contracts coordinating interactions between AI agents, and on-device large language models handling inference locally.
PIN AI is backed by a16z CSX, Hack VC, Blockchain Builders Fund, Illia Polosukhin, Anagram, Symbolic Capital, Foresight Ventures, Nomad Capital, Ben Fisch, Alumni Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Evan Cheng, Scott Moore, and dcbuilder. The project has affiliations with Worldcoin, the a16z crypto research team, Flashbots, and Espresso Systems.
PIN AI's native PIN token covers a range of network functions, including validator staking, TEE node staking and rewards, agent-service-provider staking, user rewards, and governance. PIN AI has published 2,788 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 100 accounts a total of 230 times.
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The accounts that follow PIN AI include 164 founders, 48 angel investors, 107 influencers and 8 VCs, among them Mario Nawfal, Binji, Matthew Graham, Sreeram Kannan, Jordi Alexander and Shaw Spiritacc.