Dane Knecht 🦭 (@dok2001) — Twitter Score 76 out of 1000

Dane Knecht is a technology executive who serves as Chief Technology Officer at Cloudflare and works as an angel investor. Dane Knecht's Twitter Score is 76 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #10,712 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.

Dane Knecht leads innovation strategy at Cloudflare, where he has overseen the development, launch, and scaling of Cloudflare Zero Trust, its Developer Platform, and its AI inference and agents platform. He was promoted to CTO after previously serving as SVP of Emerging Technology and Incubation. Earlier in his career, Dane Knecht co-founded FanForce, which was later acquired by Tippr, after which he joined Tippr as VP of Product Management. He previously worked at MessageOne and at Dell.

Dane Knecht has a notable footprint in crypto-adjacent infrastructure work. Cloudflare partnered with Coinbase to create the x402 Foundation and added x402 transaction support to its Agents SDK and MCP integrations, with settlement support spanning networks including Base, Ethereum, Solana, and several others. Cloudflare also operates Web3 gateways providing HTTP access to IPFS and Ethereum networks. On a personal project front, Dane Knecht publicly announced EmDash, an MIT-licensed WordPress successor built around x402-based monetization for the agent era, with deployment support for Cloudflare or Node.js environments.

Dane Knecht's account has 44,023 followers as of October 2026 and has published 5,766 posts. Dane Knecht has been mentioned by 50 accounts a total of 91 times.

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