Cycles is a private, open clearing and settlement protocol co-founded by Ethan Buchman and Tomaž Fleischman that enables individuals, businesses, and trading firms to send, receive, and earn privately. Cycles's Twitter Score is 55 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #16,140 (top 5%) among 493,607 tracked accounts.
Cycles was spun out of Informal Systems and applies zero-knowledge proofs, trusted execution environments, and multilateral clearing to deliver privacy-preserving settlement for crypto markets and stablecoin payments. The protocol has raised $8.7 million to date, anchored by a $6.4 million seed round led by Blockchange Ventures, with additional backing from Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, and Primitive Ventures.
Cycles is currently migrating its network to Arc, Circle's layer 1 blockchain designed for real-world financial flows. FalconX and Lynq Network serve as anchor partners for the protocol. Cycles has accumulated 5,920 followers as of October 2026 and 610 posts, and has been mentioned by 82 accounts a total of 123 times.
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The accounts that follow Cycles include 254 founders, 79 angel investors, 72 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Haseeb Qureshi, 0xMaki, Sreeram Kannan, Zooko, Jill Gunter and Zmanian.