Snapshot is a gasless, offchain governance voting platform for DAOs, DeFi protocols, and NFT communities that supports flexible voting strategies and customizable governance. Snapshot's Twitter Score is 161 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #3,323 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Snapshot enables governance participation through offchain signed messages, allowing users to vote without onchain transactions or gas fees. The platform charges no fees for setting up a space, creating proposals, casting votes, or executing decisions, though external costs such as ENS domains can apply. A 2022 academic study described Snapshot as the most widely adoptable DAO launchpad, finding it covered 95% of DAO projects in the study's data collection as of November 2022.
Snapshot is fully open source under the MIT license, with code repositories available on GitHub. Its onchain counterpart, Snapshot X, is a fully onchain voting protocol built with modular smart contracts for censorship resistance, onchain voting-power computation, and trustless proposal execution. Snapshot X is available on EVM chains and on Starknet, with both EVM and Cairo implementations open source. Snapshot is affiliated with Snapshot Labs.
Snapshot has published 1,675 posts and has 65,396 followers as of August 2026. Snapshot has been mentioned by 708 accounts a total of 1,523 times. Snapshot's portfolio includes WalletConnect.
Who follows Snapshot on X?
The accounts that follow Snapshot include 649 founders, 184 angel investors, 228 influencers and 18 VCs. Among them are Laura Shin, Stani, Linda Xie, Tarun Chitra, Larry Cermak and Vance Spencer.