Arius is a web3 and AI entrepreneur who founded LIFT and co-founded BattleFlyDAO, and works at Avanade as AI Acceleration Lead. Arius's Twitter Score is 19 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #52,602 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Arius, whose real name is Ben Beath, began active involvement in web3 and co-founded BattleFlyDAO, a decentralized gaming studio built on the Treasure DAO ecosystem and powered by MAGIC. The studio launched three game modes before open-sourcing its codebase. During its active period, Treasure DAO approved a strategic transaction to acquire 500,000 gFLY tokens from BattleFly for $1 million at $2 per token.
Arius also founded PlayFi, described as a blockchain project connecting live content with web3 and using AI-powered data processing. His current protocol venture, LIFT, is a decentralized web3 data protocol featuring AI-powered data agents and a planned $LIFT token. Beyond web3, Arius has a track record as a serial technology co-founder, having co-founded Loud&Clear, PlayHQ, FanHub, Sidekicker, and BoxSuite, with several of those ventures subsequently acquired: Loud&Clear by Avanade, FanHub by Genius Sports, BoxSuite by ELMO, and Sidekicker majority-acquired by SEEK.
Arius has published 4,935 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 5 accounts, totalling 59 mentions.
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