Gopher is a Layer-1 blockchain project built for AI-powered trading that rebranded from Masa Network in September 2025, before announcing a wind-down of Masa and its subsidiaries on March 25, 2026, citing market conditions and operational realities. Gopher's Twitter Score is 77 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #10,329 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Gopher was founded by Brendan Playford and Calanthia Mei, originally under the Masa Network banner, which itself evolved from an earlier incarnation called Masa Finance. The project previously operated as Subnet 42 on Bittensor, providing real-time data, and was formerly built on the Cosmos SDK. Gopher also previously graduated from the Binance MVB Accelerator Season 6 and participated in the Hashkey x AWS AI Accelerator.
Gopher raised $5.4 million in a seed round on January 23, 2024, led by Anagram, with participation from Avalanche Blizzard Fund, Digital Currency Group, GSR, FBG Capital, GoldenTree, Unshackled Ventures, OP Crypto, and PEER VC. The project subsequently completed a CoinList community token sale on March 7, 2024, raising $8.75 million in MASA tokens at $0.0787 per token in under 17 minutes. As of the research date, the main website showed a paused deployment and the testnet hub returned errors, consistent with the announced wind-down. Gopher has published 1,165 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 15 accounts a total of 69 times.
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The accounts that follow Gopher include 297 founders, 89 angel investors, 194 influencers and 22 VCs, among them Barry Silbert, Gmoney, John Wang, Mario Nawfal, Tommy and Alon.