Kieran Sweeney is a web3 developer and AI agent infrastructure builder who founded Cred, an open-source OAuth2 credential delegation middleware designed to give AI agents secure, delegated access to web services. Kieran's Twitter Score is 58 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #15,006 (top 5%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Kieran founded Cred as an open-source project featuring a self-hosted server, encrypted vault, MCP integration, and Ed25519/did:key agent identity, licensed under Apache 2.0. Alongside Cred, he authored an Internet-Draft targeting the IETF WIMSE and OAuth working groups, proposing a formal Credential Delegation Protocol for AI agents, with a submission aimed at IETF 126 in Vienna. Kieran also founded GentDex, a search engine for AI agents built with Solidity contracts and a micropayment API using x402 payments on Base USDC, priced at fractions of a cent per query. His work is affiliated with Coinbase Developer Platform and DeFiLlama, the latter through his defillama-pp-cli, an agent-native Go CLI and MCP server for cross-chain DeFi data.
Kieran founded several additional projects spanning the intersection of web3 and AI, including 0xDrip, an NFT-gated eyewear project where users burn a token to receive physical glasses, and Obscura, an authenticated photography registry currently on testnet. He also founded deep-loop and offers AI consulting through kieran.ai, covering services such as fractional AI operator engagements, advisory retainers, and startup builds. Kieran's account has accumulated 3,912 followers as of September 2026 and 3,901 posts since 2021. He has been mentioned by 20 accounts, with 84 total mentions.
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