Keyan is a software developer and community builder who founded Stacker News, a Bitcoin-powered platform where satoshi payments serve as a content-quality signal in place of conventional likes or upvotes. Keyan's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #43,473 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Keyan also co-founded PlebLab, a Bitcoin accelerator and hackerspace that he helped start alongside two others. Before his work in the Bitcoin space, Keyan previously worked on distributed systems. Stacker News raised $300k in pre-seed funding from a range of investors and angels, per reporting from January 2022; those were backers of the company rather than personal investors in Keyan.
Keyan has continued to develop Stacker News's technical capabilities, including the addition of self-custodial spending through Nostr Wallet Connect, which lets users connect their own wallets and spend satoshis directly without depositing funds with the platform first. Keyan has published 3,754 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 28 accounts a total of 77 times.
Who follows Keyan on X?
The accounts that follow Keyan include 128 founders, 11 angel investors, 65 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Marc Andreessen, Caitlin Long, Shaan Puri, TO, leighcuen.substack.com and Dylan LeClair.