IOTA is a decentralized blockchain and distributed ledger infrastructure project built for real-world trade, supply chains, IoT, identity, and tokenization, co-founded by David Sønstebø, Dominik Schiener, Sergey Ivancheglo, and Serguei Popov. IOTA's Twitter Score is 81 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #9,930 (top 5%) among 483,914 tracked accounts.
IOTA launched its network after initial development was funded through an online public crowdsale that raised approximately 1,300 BTC. The project operates in close alignment with the IOTA Foundation and is enabling trusted trade through TWIN Global, with its broader ecosystem also encompassing Shimmer as a staging network. In November 2023, the IOTA Ecosystem DLT Foundation was registered in Abu Dhabi, seeded with over $100 million in IOTA tokens vested across four years.
IOTA has navigated significant security incidents in its history. In 2018, more than $10 million in IOTA tokens were stolen through a malicious online seed generator, and a suspect was subsequently arrested. In 2020, an attack on the Trinity wallet via a third-party MoonPay integration prompted the IOTA Foundation to suspend the network for approximately one month while the vulnerability was addressed.
IOTA introduced the IOTA Rebased proposal in November 2024, outlining a path to full decentralization with support for MoveVM and EVM, a target throughput exceeding 50,000 transactions per second, and native staking, with a testnet already live. IOTA has published 9,585 posts and has been mentioned by 422 accounts a total of 1,413 times, reflecting sustained attention across the crypto community.
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The accounts that follow IOTA include 256 founders, 56 angel investors, 209 influencers and 12 VCs, among them Toly, CoinDesk, Eric Wall, Cointelegraph, Mario Nawfal and Jake Brukhman.