David Dao (@dwddao) — Twitter Score 20 out of 1000
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About David Dao's Twitter Score
David Dao is an AI and decentralized public-goods researcher who co-founded GainForest, a Swiss tax-exempt nonprofit building open, community-first infrastructure that combines AI, community-owned biodiversity data, and decentralized funding mechanisms for forest stewardship. David Dao's Twitter Score is 20 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #48,431 among 483,288 tracked accounts.
David Dao co-founded GainForest and serves as its Chief Scientist, and also works at Protocol Labs R&D as Co-Lead for Economies and Governance. The GainForest concept originated at a United Nations hackathon, where Dao first prototyped an AI model predicting deforestation connected to a blockchain that pays forest stewards directly, winning the hackathon's grand prize. GainForest was later registered as a Swiss nonprofit and granted tax-exempt status.
David Dao co-founded DeepGov, an open-source platform for AI-assisted democratic capital allocation and governance, featuring configurable AI representatives, participatory voting, and transparent grant-allocation experiments. His research spans machine-learning data valuation, on-chain payments to data contributors, programmable economies, and public-goods funding. He is also a technical advisor to the Hypercerts Foundation, and participated in coordinating the GG23 Hypercerts for Nature Stewards round, which used blockchain-based environmental impact certificates and Gitcoin Grants infrastructure.
David Dao and collaborator Sharfy Adamantine proposed the ImpactQF concept, combining quadratic-funding signals with evaluated impact evidence, which was used in a Gitcoin Grants 23 experiment. GainForest and ETH BiodivX won the XPRIZE Rainforest Bonus Prize in 2024 after competing against 298 teams, with the entire $250,000 prize donated to a new Indigenous Science Endowment Fund. GainForest counts Microsoft AI for Earth, the Ethereum Foundation, the Filecoin Foundation, Celo, Gitcoin, Octant, and the Climate Collective among its infrastructure supporters. David Dao has 3,289 followers as of August 2026 and has published 2,101 posts, and has been mentioned by 26 accounts a total of 45 times.
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The accounts that follow David Dao include 88 founders, 19 angel investors, 18 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Sreeram Kannan, Armani Ferrante, Austin Griffith, Owockai, Gajesh and Robert Scoble.
