Daniel Andrade is a DePIN builder and entrepreneur who co-founded Hotspotty, a tooling platform for deploying and managing Helium hotspots that grew to 300,000 users and tracked 400,000 hotspots before he moved on to build independently. Daniel Andrade's Twitter Score is 14 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #71,583 among 492,186 tracked accounts.
Daniel Andrade and his co-founder were among the earliest European deployers of the Helium network, and the practical challenges they encountered directly motivated the creation of Hotspotty. The platform evolved into a comprehensive suite covering network visualization, location planning, monitoring, and automated host payouts, attracting investment from Samsung NEXT. Daniel Andrade also co-founded DePIN Hub, a Hotspotty-team project focused on DePIN project discovery, news, education, and community resources, and previously hosted the DePIN Hub Podcast. He was formerly a mentor at Outlier Ventures.
Daniel Andrade has accumulated more than two decades of experience across hardware and software development. His account has 3,512 followers as of September 2026 and 9,386 posts, and has been active since 2007. Daniel Andrade has been mentioned by 40 accounts, with 103 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Daniel Andrade include 74 founders, 19 angel investors, 13 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are 0xSammy, Leap, DeFi Dave, Francesco Andreoli, Justin and Outlier Ventures.