AK (@akrtws) — Twitter Score 23 out of 1000

AK is a decentralized governance researcher and practitioner who leads governance at NEAR House of Stake, joining in December 2025 with a mission to make the organization fully autonomous. AK's Twitter Score is 23 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #43,022 (top 10%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.

AK founded Token Engineering Academy in 2020 as a community bringing together academic researchers and crypto practitioners around the design, verification, and optimization of cryptoeconomic token-based systems. Between 2020 and 2024, the Academy ran an NFT-based on-chain achievement and reputation system that engaged more than 5,000 students, issued 1,788 NFTs, and secured over $1 million in funding for knowledge as a public good. AK also co-founded GovXS and co-founded Token Engineering Community, extending her work across governance research and token engineering education.

AK's governance research through GovXS has included evaluating voting mechanisms used in Optimism Retro Funding. In 2024, Token Engineering Academy proposed and ran a reputation-based weighted-voting experiment on Optimism Mainnet, combining reputation with token-based decision-making as an alternative governance primitive. Previously, AK was a contributor to Token Engineering Commons and formerly participated in the Gitcoin Fraud Detection and Defense workstream.

AK has published 2,172 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 50 accounts a total of 151 times, reflecting ongoing engagement within governance and token engineering circles.

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The accounts that follow AK include 128 founders, 32 angel investors, 23 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Tay, Gabriel Shapiro, Zmanian, Austin Griffith, Owockai and NEAR Protocol.