Sturdy is a DeFi lending protocol that combines isolated risk pools with shared liquidity through a two-layer architecture and permissionless asset onboarding. Sturdy's Twitter Score is 63 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #13,333 (top 5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Sturdy was founded by Sam Forman and operates on Ethereum, with its architecture built around the Sturdy Subnet, affiliated with Bittensor Subnet 10. The protocol's governance token, $STRDY, has a total supply of 100,000,000 and is managed through the Sturdy DAO. Sturdy has attracted backing from Pantera Capital, Y Combinator, SoftBank Opportunity Fund, and KuCoin Ventures.
Sturdy experienced a significant security incident in June 2023, when an exploit combining a reentrancy-style vulnerability with oracle manipulation resulted in a loss of approximately 442 ETH, estimated at around $800,000. The protocol paused all markets in response and offered a $100,000 bounty for the attacker to return the remaining funds. Sturdy has published 1,314 posts and has been mentioned by 141 accounts a total of 275 times, with 26,806 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Sturdy include 220 founders, 70 angel investors, 174 influencers and 9 VCs, among them Barry Silbert, Gmoney, John Wang, Mario Nawfal, DeFi Dad defidad.eth and Banteg.