Hiro is a public-benefit company that builds developer tools and infrastructure for Bitcoin and the Stacks ecosystem, operating under the corporate name Hiro Systems PBC. Hiro's Twitter Score is 56 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #15,752 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Hiro was co-founded by Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea as Blockstack Inc., later operating as Blockstack PBC, before rebranding to its current name. The company announced in 2020 that it would narrow its focus to developer applications and tools for the Stacks ecosystem, stepping back from broader decentralized internet ambitions. Hiro performed early research and development for the Stacks 2.0 blockchain and, following its 2021 launch, concentrated on developer tooling and hosted services. More recently, Hiro announced the deprecation of its Bitcoin Layer-1 tooling for Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 in order to concentrate resources on core Stacks infrastructure.
Hiro has a notable regulatory history. Blockstack PBC offered Stacks Tokens under a SEC-qualified Regulation A offering in 2019. On July 9, 2024, SEC staff concluded their investigation concerning the Stacks Blockchain and informed Hiro that they did not intend to recommend an enforcement action. The company's stated purpose as a public-benefit corporation is enabling an open, decentralized internet that gives users greater control over information and computation. Hiro partners and collaborates with the Stacks Foundation.
Hiro has attracted backing from a broad range of investors, including Hivemind Capital Partners, Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Blockchain Capital, SV Angel, Foundation Capital, Lux Capital, Version One Ventures, Dorm Room Fund, CSC Upshot, and Rising Tide. Hiro has been active on Twitter since 2018, accumulating 13,591 followers as of August 2026 across 4,250 posts. Hiro has been mentioned by 129 accounts a total of 458 times.
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The accounts that follow Hiro include 226 founders, 59 angel investors, 76 influencers and 13 VCs, among them Solana, Erik Voorhees, Chris Burniske, 6529, OpenSea and Sandeep.