Irys (✧ᴗ✧) (@irys_xyz) — Twitter Score 166 out of 1000

Irys is a Layer-1 datachain that unifies high-performance onchain storage, data availability, and EVM-compatible smart contract execution. Irys's Twitter Score is 166 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #3,290 (top 1%) among 487,620 tracked accounts.

Irys operates as a blockchain designed to store large volumes of data onchain and allow smart contracts to access that data directly, while proving it remains available over time. The project is developed by BN Labs Ltd, trading as Irys, a company registered in England and Wales. According to its whitepaper, authored by Josh Benaron, Dan MacDonald, and Jesse Cruz Wright, Irys is built around IrysVM, an EVM++ implementation with new opcodes that enable programmable data and smart-contract access to stored data.

Irys's whitepaper describes a hybrid Proof-of-Work and Stake consensus design, and a multi-ledger architecture that supports arbitrary retention windows, including short-term ledgers and promotion to permanent storage after threshold ingress proofs. Irys has received backing from CoinFund, Lemniscap, Hypersphere, Framework, and Primitive. Irys has been active on the platform since 2021 and has published 3,190 posts, and has been mentioned by 387 accounts a total of 3,323 times.

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Irys draws a technically oriented audience across the crypto ecosystem. The accounts that follow Irys include 540 founders, 166 angel investors, 357 influencers and 18 VCs, among them Toly, Laura Shin, 6529, Andrew Kang, smolting wassie, verse and Vance Spencer.