Gear Technologies is a Web3 infrastructure developer behind Gear Protocol, a Substrate-based platform for building decentralized applications and smart contracts using WebAssembly. Gear Technologies's Twitter Score is 19 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #50,828 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Gear Technologies was founded by Nikolay Volf and is affiliated with Gear Foundation. Gear Protocol serves as the execution engine for two distinct network products: Vara Network, a standalone layer-1 decentralized network built on top of the protocol, and Vara.eth, an Ethereum application platform powered by the same execution engine that went live on Ethereum mainnet in April 2026. The VARA token carries a total supply of 10 billion and is used for transaction fees, staking, network security, and governance.
Gear Technologies raised $12 million in a private investment round led by Blockchange Ventures in December 2021. Additional backers include Lemniscap, Distributed Global, The LAO, Mechanism Capital, Signum Capital, HashKey, Spartan Group LLC, Bitscale, DI Ventures, Elysium Venture Capital, P2P Economy, and Gavin Wood. Three Arrows Capital was previously also among its backers. Gear Technologies has published 2,653 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 72 accounts a total of 164 times.
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Gear Technologies draws a technically engaged following across the crypto ecosystem. The accounts that follow Gear Technologies include 85 founders, 28 angel investors, 38 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Andrew Kang, Jake Brukhman, Yu Hu, Bybit, Kelvin Koh and Konstantin Lomashuk Cyberacc.