Cicero is a permissionless private-credit protocol designed for institutional borrowers, structured as a contract-to-contract credit market initially targeting Web3 market makers and selected hedge funds. Cicero's Twitter Score is 24 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #46,702 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Cicero was formerly affiliated with crypto lender Loda, whose first institutional liquidity pool drew $15 million from more than 15 participants. Cicero also previously engaged with Metis, receiving approved Community Verified Project status through the Metis community forum, though at the time of that proposal the team had not yet decided where to launch. A product-development partner has since reported that Cicero never launched publicly and that its website went offline, while its documentation remained accessible.
Cicero's proposed architecture centered on senior and junior lending pools, with the junior pool acting as first-loss capital. A third Investment Pool was also described in the protocol documentation, where users could stake LODA to receive the LODESTAR governance token, which carries voting power. The protocol also explored property bonds and other real-world-asset opportunities beyond its initial institutional focus. Cicero attracted backing from Framework Ventures, Spartan Capital, Maven 11, Cluster Capital, Signum Capital, One Block, Liquefy Labs, Apollo Capital, Ledger Prime, and X21. Cicero has accumulated 2,424 followers as of July 2026 and 152 posts, and has been mentioned by 2 accounts a total of 4 times.
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The accounts that follow Cicero include 63 founders, 36 angel investors, 64 influencers and 9 VCs, among them Andrew Kang, smolting wassie, verse, John Wang, Darren Lau, 0xMaki and Jihoz.ron.