Laura Shin (@laurashin) — Twitter Score 1000 out of 1000

Laura Shin is a crypto journalist and the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto assets full-time. She founded Unchained, where she serves as CEO, and previously worked at Forbes as Senior Editor. Laura Shin's Twitter Score is 1000 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing her at rank #1 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked.

Laura Shin hosts and produces the Unchained podcast, which launched in 2016 and has grown to over 1,200 episodes, with podcasts and videos accumulating 30 million downloads and views. She also produces Unchained news and a newsletter at unchainedcrypto.com. In 2022, she published The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze (PublicAffairs), covering the first major wave of the cryptocurrency industry. While at Forbes, she spearheaded the first Forbes Fintech 50 list, and left in 2018 to focus full-time on independent crypto journalism.

Laura Shin published an exclusive investigation identifying Toby Hoenisch as the apparent hacker behind the 2016 DAO attack on Ethereum, in which 3.64 million ETH was diverted, drawing on sources and Chainalysis forensics; Hoenisch denied the claim. She has spoken about crypto at TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, the Senate Blockchain Caucus, and Singularity University, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Time. Laura Shin has 289,693 followers as of July 2026 and 43,711 posts, and her score places her among the top 36 accounts on the platform scoring above 900. She has been mentioned by 1,644 accounts, with 4,071 total mentions.

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Laura Shin's follower base spans a broad cross-section of crypto and finance professionals. The accounts that follow Laura Shin include 3,183 founders, 723 angel investors, 1,736 influencers and 189 VCs, among them Brian Armstrong, Solana, Marc Andreessen, Erik Voorhees, jesse.base.eth and Toly.