Alexei is a co-founder of BOB, a Bitcoin DeFi hybrid chain that describes itself as the Bank of Bitcoin for swapping, saving, earning and borrowing on Bitcoin rails. Alexei's Twitter Score is 133 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #4,559 (top 1%) among 480,477 tracked accounts.
Alexei co-founded BOB, which is built on the OP Stack with EVM compatibility and is a member of the OP Superchain. The project combines Bitcoin security with EVM compatibility, hybrid ZK proofs, Bitcoin finality and a native BTC bridge using BitVM. BOB Gateway serves as a Bitcoin intents toolkit enabling native BTC swaps, deposits and withdrawals across connected chains, and the platform reports over 120 projects building on Bitcoin and more than $1.7 billion in DEX volume. Alexei was previously affiliated with Interlay, a modular programmable layer between Bitcoin and the multi-chain ecosystem.
Alexei has also contributed to academic research on Bitcoin, co-authoring a paper on Bitcoin mining pool centralization and the empirical analysis of mining shares. Alexei's account has 27,241 followers as of August 2026 and has published 5,900 posts. Alexei has been mentioned by 135 accounts a total of 325 times.
Alexei's portfolio includes Velar.
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