Verida is an open-source self-sovereign data DePIN protocol that provides confidential database storage and compute infrastructure for private AI applications and agents. Verida's Twitter Score is 23 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #42,953 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Verida was co-founded by Chris Were as CEO and Ryan Kris as COO. The protocol delivers off-chain encrypted storage, decentralized identities, confidential compute, and encrypted messaging, with its mainnet going live on December 28, 2023, with its DID method deployed on Polygon PoS. Security audits conducted by Chainsulting and Hashlock found no critical issues.
Verida raised over $5 million in June 2024 at a reported valuation of $50 million, with backing from O-DE Capital Partners, ChaiTech Ventures, Simurg Labs, Gate Labs, HASH CIB, Bison Capital, Amesten Capital, and angel investor Evan Cheng. The network's native utility token, VDA, has a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens and its contract is deployed on Polygon.
Verida maintains affiliations with a range of protocols and infrastructure partners, including Polygon ID, NEAR, Partisia Blockchain, Redbelly Network, zkPass, Kima Network, Nillion, cheqd, WalletConnect, and FinClusive. Verida has published 4,279 posts and has been mentioned by 99 accounts a total of 346 times.
Who follows Verida on X?
The accounts that follow Verida include 89 founders, 20 angel investors, 61 influencers and 6 VCs, among them John Wang, Mario Nawfal, Zeneca, Jake Brukhman, Matthew Graham and Jane Lippencott.