Brian Long is a blockchain infrastructure entrepreneur who co-founded Triton One, a production-grade Solana RPC and validator services company. Brian Long's Twitter Score is 96 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #7,656 (top 5%) among 493,476 tracked accounts.
Brian Long was among the earliest participants in the Solana ecosystem, stress-testing the network as one of its original validators before a public testnet existed, as part of a small Discord community of early operators. He was involved in helping Solana Labs bring the Solana mainnet live. Triton One grew out of that early commitment, starting when Long and two colleagues began running Solana RPC infrastructure on six bare-metal servers. The company now builds and operates production blockchain infrastructure spanning RPC services, validators, indexing, streaming, historical data access, and transaction tooling.
Brian Long is also affiliated with Validators.app and Block Logic validator. Triton One holds founding membership in the Solana Research Institute, and the company is collaborating with the Solana Foundation on RPC 2.0, a staged project targeting 2026 that aims to rebuild Solana's read layers from the ground up. Brian Long has posted 10,617 times on the platform and has been mentioned by 69 accounts a total of 106 times.
Brian Long's portfolio includes Switchboard, Elmnts, Jito and DoubleZero.
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The accounts that follow Brian Long include 339 founders, 84 angel investors, 87 influencers and 2 VCs. Among his notable followers are Solana, Toly, Kyle Samani, SBF, Raj and Mario Nawfal.