smart
Juan Benet (@juanbenet) — Twitter Score 324 out of 1000
Score generated by TwitterScore.io based on the popularity of this account in crypto space
Erik Voorhees
toly 🇺🇸
Chris Dixon
vitalik.eth
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Balaji
Upgrade to see this data
Upgrade to see this data
Upgrade to see this data
Smart Followers
Unlock instant search across all smart followers, plus categories, trending alpha and bulk score checks.
| Username | Following Date | Twitter Score | Followers | Smart Followers | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|||||
About Juan Benet's Twitter Score
Juan Benet is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded Protocol Labs and created the decentralized storage network Filecoin, the peer-to-peer file system IPFS, and libp2p. Juan Benet's Twitter Score is 324 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #973 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Juan Benet founded Protocol Labs, which describes itself as an innovation network connecting more than 750 tech startups, funds, accelerators, foundations, open source projects, service providers, and other organizations, originally formed as the team behind IPFS, Filecoin, and libp2p. He is the sole listed author of the 2014 IPFS paper, "IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System," establishing the conceptual and technical foundation for the protocol. Per Wired, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and others invested $52 million into Protocol Labs ahead of Filecoin's ICO, and Filecoin subsequently raised $257 million in what was reported as that year's largest ICO.
Juan Benet is also affiliated with PL Capital, which describes itself as a family of venture funds backing founders scaling breakthrough R&D, and works at PLC Neurotech. In February 2023, Axios reported that Protocol Labs announced layoffs of 21% of staff, or 89 employees, identifying Juan Benet as CEO at that time. Filecoin remains active, with its official site showing the NV28 "Fire Horse" network upgrade and Filecoin ProPGF Batch 3 activity in 2026.
As an angel investor, Juan Benet has backed Iron Fish, Golden, SpruceID we're hiring, CoinTracker, Privy, Zama, Violet and Huddle01. Juan Benet's account has accumulated 53,631 followers as of July 2026 and 8,856 posts. Juan Benet has been mentioned by 434 accounts, with 1,255 total mentions.
Who follows Juan Benet on X?
The accounts that follow Juan Benet include 1,237 founders, 328 angel investors, 336 influencers and 56 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, vitalik.eth, Erik Voorhees and Laura Shin.
