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Chris Burniske (@cburniske) — Twitter Score 932 out of 1000
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About Chris Burniske's Twitter Score
Chris Burniske is a Partner who co-founded Placeholder, a venture capital firm focused on cryptoassets and related infrastructure, in 2017 alongside Joel Monegro and Brad Burnham. Chris Burniske's Twitter Score is 932 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #31 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked, and he is one of 36 accounts on the platform to score above 900.
Chris Burniske previously worked at ARK Invest as blockchain products lead, spending three years building the firm's crypto knowledge base before leaving in July 2017 to launch Placeholder. In 2015, he led ARK Invest to become the first public fund manager to offer bitcoin exposure through the inclusion of Grayscale's Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) in the ARK Web x.0 ETF. He also co-authored a 2015 ARK white paper on bitcoin with economist Arthur Laffer and a 2016 research paper with Coinbase's Adam White arguing bitcoin constitutes a distinct investable asset class.
Chris Burniske co-authored Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond with Jack Tatar, published by McGraw Hill in September 2017, introducing the term "cryptoassets" and a taxonomy for classifying the asset class. The firm closed its first fund in December 2017, targeting approximately $100 million on a 10-year venture capital structure, and he has since published investment theses on crypto networks including Saga in April 2024 and Eclipse in July 2024. The firm's portfolio includes DRiP.
Chris Burniske has 337,110 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 32,997 posts since 2016. He has been mentioned by 910 accounts, with 2,068 total mentions across the platform.
Who follows Chris Burniske on X?
Chris Burniske draws a concentrated following from the crypto and venture ecosystem. The accounts that follow Chris Burniske include 3,375 founders, 840 angel investors, 1,787 influencers and 177 VCs, among them Balaji, Chris Dixon, CZ BNB, Solana, Marc Andreessen and Erik Voorhees.
