Balaji (@balajis) — Twitter Score 1000 out of 1000

Balaji is Balaji S. Srinivasan, a crypto founder, angel investor, and author based in Southeast Asia. Balaji's Twitter Score is 1000 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #1 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked, a score above the 900 threshold reached by only 36 accounts on the platform.

Balaji co-founded Earn.com, which began as bitcoin mining startup 21e6 and had raised more than $120 million from investors before Coinbase acquired it in April 2018 for more than $120 million, appointing him as its first chief technology officer. He left Coinbase in May 2019, having helped ship new assets, launch USDC, and enable staking and voting. He previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz as general partner.

Balaji is the author of The Network State, a 2022 book advocating internet-native communities that crowdfund territory to build startup societies. He founded Network School, a residential startup-society community near Singapore in Forest City, Malaysia, launched in 2024 with an inaugural cohort of 150.

Balaji founded the Balaji Fund on AngelList in December 2023 to invest in startup societies and network states, with backing from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, and venture capitalist Fred Wilson. He is a board member of Coin Center. His known investments include Gitcoin, Iron Fish, Instadapp, OpenSea, Push Chain Testnet Arc, Avalanche, Radicle and Common.

Balaji raised early public warnings about COVID-19 in January 2020. On March 17, 2023, he made a public bet, reported by Forbes at $2 million, that bitcoin would reach $1 million within 90 days, when bitcoin was trading in the mid-$20,000 range. He conceded the bet early and, per Wikipedia, paid an additional $500,000 to Bitcoin core developers after losing roughly $1 million on the wager. In April 2026, he was named as a seed investor in Objection.ai, a Thiel-backed startup using AI to adjudicate journalism claims. The New York Times has also reported that in a 2013 email to Curtis Yarvin, he allegedly suggested doxxing a reporter covering Silicon Valley's ties to the neoreactionary movement.

Balaji has been active since 2013 and has accumulated 1,815,022 followers as of July 2026, having published 31,203 posts. He has been mentioned by 2,874 accounts, with 8,189 total mentions.

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Balaji's follower base spans a broad range of crypto-adjacent profiles. The accounts that follow Balaji include 5,195 founders, 1,040 angel investors, 2,382 influencers and 269 VCs, among them Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, CZ BNB, Solana, vitalik.eth and Erik Voorhees.