Elys Network is a self-custodial Layer-1 DeFi appchain that combines spot trading, perpetuals, staking, liquidity mining, and leveraged liquidity into a single platform. Elys Network's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #43,702 (top 10%) among 482,999 tracked accounts.
Elys Network was co-founded by Mitchell Nishimura, Casey Arrington, and Hesham Aly. Built with the Cosmos SDK and designed to leverage Cosmos Hub security through Interchain Security, it functions as a universal liquidity platform aimed at making DeFi accessible across every major market type. Security auditing for the protocol is handled by Halborn.
Elys Network's native ELYS token serves dual purposes: governance participation and staking, with stakers earning 25% of DEX revenues distributed in USDC. The project has attracted backing from a broad set of investors and ecosystem partners, including Comma3 Ventures, Tess Ventures, Cogitent Ventures, ATOM Accelerator DAO, Persistence, Stakecito, CoinSwitch, Allnodes, Kahuna, Dutch Crypto Investors, CSP DAO, and Smart Stake.
Elys Network has published 4,397 posts on the platform since 2022. The account has been mentioned by 111 accounts, with 567 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Elys Network include 78 founders, 17 angel investors, 90 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Michael Arrington, Zmanian, Sunny Aggarwal, DFarmer, Ethan Buchman and Minion.