Kevin Z (@kzdagoof) — Twitter Score 96 out of 1000

Kevin Z is a crypto builder and co-founder who launched fully on-chain games through Curio Research, which he co-founded with Yijia Chen. Kevin Z's Twitter Score is 96 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #7,650 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.

Kevin Z co-founded Curio Research in 2022 alongside Yijia Chen, with a focus on building games that run entirely on-chain via smart contracts. The studio launched Treaty, a fully on-chain strategy game, in January 2023, and later publicly released Duper Season One in August 2024, a five-player social strategy and wagering game. Curio also open-sourced Keystone in May 2023, an experimental on-chain game rollup framework built on the Optimism OP Stack, and has worked with Abstract Chain as well.

Kevin Z raised a total of $8.7M across two seed rounds for Curio Research, per public announcements: a $2.9M round in February 2023 led by Bain Capital Crypto, followed by an additional $5.7M round in August 2024. Prior to Curio, Kevin Z built zk-NFT, a project announced in October 2021 that used zkSNARKs to prove NFT ownership and metadata characteristics without revealing them. Kevin Z previously attended Yale University before dropping out to pursue his work in crypto. Kevin Z's account has published 3,555 posts and has been mentioned by 31 accounts a total of 39 times.

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