Ben Sigman is a Bitcoin entrepreneur who founded Libre Labs and Bitcoin Libre and serves as CEO of Libre Labs. Ben Sigman's Twitter Score is 91 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #9,371 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Ben Sigman built the Libre ecosystem, which centers on a Bitcoin-native layer-2 network designed for lending, trading, and DeFi without requiring users to hold a separate network token. The Libre mainnet launched on July 4, 2022 with no premine and an initial issuance of 4,200 LIBRE as its chain coin. The lending marketplace within the ecosystem uses MPC/TSS custody, on-chain settlement, and requires Bitcoin collateral exceeding 200%.
Ben Sigman also created Bitcoin Libre, a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet built for instant, fee-free transactions using wrapped Bitcoin, originally conceived to support peer-to-peer transactions around El Salvador's Bitcoin adoption experiment. He additionally built the Libre Crosslink Bridge and Libre's decentralized Bitcoin-lending platform as part of the broader infrastructure he has developed within the Libre ecosystem.
Ben Sigman previously worked at Sense as CTO, where he developed Sense.chat, a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging service using EOS namespace authentication, and was described as a pivotal participant in the 2018 EOS mainnet launch. He was formerly affiliated with Helios VC, having been identified as a member of that team during EOS Network Foundation activities. Ben Sigman is an advisor to the Bitcoin Foundation and co-authored The Big Bitcoin Book, a visual history covering Bitcoin's first fifteen years. Ben Sigman's account at @bensig has published 9,555 posts and has been followed by 45,597 accounts.
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