Grassroots Economics (@grassEcon) — Twitter Score 20 out of 1000

Grassroots Economics is a nonprofit foundation that develops blockchain-based community currencies and open-source economic-commons infrastructure, founded by Will Ruddick. Grassroots Economics's Twitter Score is 20 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #49,100 among 486,860 tracked accounts.

Grassroots Economics was founded by Will Ruddick, who in May 2013 was among six people arrested and charged with currency forgery in connection with the Bangla-Pesa community currency project; those charges were subsequently dropped. The foundation operates the Sarafu Network, a community currency system built on the Celo blockchain, with Community Asset Vouchers running on Celo since 2023. Grassroots Economics also serves as a Delegate to Celo.

Grassroots Economics expanded significantly during the COVID-19 period, growing to more than 50,000 registered users through pilots conducted with the Kenya Red Cross Society and the Danish Red Cross. The foundation previously worked with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and was formerly backed by Innovation Norway and the DOEN Foundation. It also previously worked with Bancor, Commons Stack, BlockScience, Accenture, and Sempo. In 2026, Grassroots Economics launched Cosmo-Local Credit, an open-protocol infrastructure layer designed to support community-led credit systems and decentralized finance.

Grassroots Economics has published 933 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 64 accounts, with 433 total mentions.

Who follows Grassroots Economics on X?

The accounts that follow Grassroots Economics include 107 founders, 22 angel investors, 17 influencers and 1 VCs, among them jesse.base.eth, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Zmanian, Austin Griffith, Ameen Soleimani and Owockai.