DeSo is a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to decentralize social media, storing profiles, posts, social graphs, and related activity natively on-chain. DeSo's Twitter Score is 86 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #9,057 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
DeSo was founded by Nader Al-Naji, who previously operated BitClout, the predecessor project. Federal prosecutors charged Al-Naji with wire fraud connected to BitClout, and the SEC separately charged him with fraud and unregistered offers and sales of BTCLT, alleging he raised more than $257 million and used more than $7 million for personal expenditures. Al-Naji was taken into custody on July 27, 2024.
DeSo is designed to scale storage-heavy Web3 applications to billions of users, recording profiles, posts, social graphs, messages, likes, follows, social-token activity, NFT activity, and exchange activity directly on-chain rather than relying on off-chain storage. The DeSo Foundation holds a $200 million treasury dedicated to supporting the decentralization of social media. DeSo has received backing from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, and Winklevoss Capital.
DeSo has accumulated 65,831 followers as of October 2026 and has published 4,773 posts. The account has been mentioned by 135 accounts, with 274 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow DeSo include 379 founders, 95 angel investors, 193 influencers and 15 VCs. Among them are Ansem, Laura Shin, Haseeb Qureshi, Udi Wertheimer, Alexis Ohanian and Sandeep.