DeFund is a sovereign DeFi rollup protocol designed to serve as a hub for cross-VM liquidity and leveraged financial products. DeFund's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #72,793 among 486,037 tracked accounts.
DeFund was founded by John DiBernardi and builds on Celestia using Rollkit, replacing a traditional validator set with a sequencer and relying on Celestia as its data-availability layer. The project previously operated under a different design, describing itself as a cross-chain decentralized exchange-traded fund protocol built with the Cosmos SDK, before pivoting to its current sovereign-rollup architecture. John DiBernardi and Joe Schnetzler represented the project at Osmocon 2022, presenting infrastructure for user-created decentralized ETFs under that earlier model.
DeFund's documented product suite includes a hybrid orderbook and AMM exchange, high-leverage options, structured-product creation tools, and Ethereum-compatible onboarding through MetaMask. The project has also proposed Validator Extension Tokens, tradable tokens intended to represent diversified staking positions across a validator's supported proof-of-stake networks.
DeFund announced its native token $D on July 2, 2024, retiring the former DETF ticker following the project's technical and strategic pivot. The token is designed to serve roles in transaction fees, governance, liquidity pools, option vaults, and options trading, with a maximum supply of 250,000,000 tokens all minted at genesis. The announced genesis allocation distributed 17% to an airdrop, 25% to ecosystem and growth initiatives, 20% to early contributors, 19% to hedged-liquidity-provider rewards, and 19% to call and put pool rewards. The project's most recent confirmed first-party publication was dated August 21, 2024.
DeFund has been mentioned by 16 accounts, with 27 total mentions across the platform.
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The accounts that follow DeFund include 58 founders, 22 angel investors and 37 influencers, among them Avichal Garg - Electric Capital, Andy, Zmanian, Josh Ong, monetsupply.eth and Redphone.