Chainlink is a decentralized oracle and onchain finance infrastructure platform that has enabled more than $31 trillion in transaction value. Chainlink's Twitter Score is 439 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #466 (top 0.1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Chainlink was co-founded by Sergey Nazarov and Steve Ellis, who together authored the original whitepaper alongside cryptographer Ari Juels, who serves as a technical advisor to the project. Chainlink is affiliated with Chainlink Labs and the Chainlink Foundation, the organizations that drive development and governance of the protocol. Sergey Nazarov, as CEO of Chainlink Labs, is listed as a member of the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee. Additional advisors include Dan Boneh as a technical advisor and Eric Schmidt as an advisor.
Chainlink has established institutional partnerships across traditional finance. Swift, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink completed a pilot for settling tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using the Swift network, as part of MAS Project Guardian. Chainlink is also affiliated with Mastercard, DTCC, Intercontinental Exchange, and SIX, reflecting broad engagement with established financial market infrastructure providers.
Chainlink has published 12,798 posts on the platform and has 1,393,241 followers as of August 2026. Chainlink has been mentioned by 4,112 accounts, with 22,826 total mentions.
Chainlink's portfolio includes EPIC Travel, Maiga.ai, DeXe Protocol, Protofire, Hardhat, ETHIndia, Fanadise and Nomic Foundation.
Who follows Chainlink on X?
The accounts that follow Chainlink include 1,707 founders, 342 angel investors, 976 influencers and 78 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Toly, Laura Shin, Stani, CoinDesk and Andrew Kang.