Tezos Foundation is a Swiss foundation that supports the Tezos protocol through grants and other capital deployment vehicles, supervised by the Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority. Tezos Foundation's Twitter Score is 100 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #8,928 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Tezos Foundation was co-founded by Arthur Breitman, Kathleen Breitman, and Johann Gevers. In 2017, the foundation raised $232 million through an ICO, per Wired, in exchange for a token that did not yet exist at the time. In November 2017, a class-action lawsuit was filed alleging securities-law violations and investor fraud related to that ICO. Per Reuters, the founders settled the lawsuits in 2020, with Tezos Foundation paying $25 million.
Tezos Foundation is affiliated with Trilitech, Nomadic Labs, Tezos Commons, and Functori, all of which form part of the broader Tezos ecosystem. The foundation's council includes Alexis Bonte as President of the Foundation Council and Chair of the Nomination Committee, Daniel Masters, Roman Schnider, and Lars Haussmann as Chair of the Audit Committee. Tezos Foundation has published 1,864 posts and has been mentioned by 332 accounts a total of 1,786 times.
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The accounts that follow Tezos Foundation include 343 founders, 84 angel investors, 152 influencers and 23 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Fred Ehrsam, Nic Carter, Kyle Samani, Andrew Kang and smolting wassie, verse.