Audius is a decentralized music streaming protocol that serves as a developer gateway to the Open Audio Protocol and its open music catalog. Audius's Twitter Score is 197 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,380 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Audius was founded by Roneil Rumburg and Forrest Browning and is affiliated with the Open Audio Foundation. Built on public blockchain infrastructure, the protocol gives artists and listeners a community-run alternative to traditional music platforms. The $AUDIO token launched on October 22, 2020 with a fixed genesis supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, and $AUDIO stakers govern a global fee pool that captures 10% of all sales and 1% of all Artist Coin trading fees generated on the protocol.
Audius has grown to host a substantial catalog of tracks across a large base of artists and monthly listeners. Audius maintains 10,826 posts on the platform. Audius has been mentioned by 117 accounts a total of 254 times.
Audius's portfolio includes Arpeggi Labs.
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The accounts that follow Audius include 725 founders, 173 angel investors, 330 influencers and 17 VCs. Among them are Solana, Toly, Ansem, Laura Shin, Fred Ehrsam and Binance.