Leemon Baird (@leemonbaird) — Twitter Score 30 out of 1000

Leemon Baird is a technologist and co-founder who invented the hashgraph consensus algorithm, the distributed ledger technology underlying Hedera. Leemon Baird's Twitter Score is 30 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #37,222 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.

Leemon Baird co-founded Hedera and Hashgraph, building public and enterprise-grade distributed ledger infrastructure around the hashgraph consensus mechanism he created. He previously co-founded Swirlds, the company through which the hashgraph technology was originally developed. Leemon Baird also holds affiliations with the Hedera Council and with Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and its Project Hiero initiative.

Leemon Baird co-founded the DeRec Alliance in January 2024, an effort to establish open standards for decentralized recovery of digital assets, addressing one of the more persistent usability challenges in the broader crypto ecosystem. He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Leemon Baird's account has published 74 posts and has 49,384 followers as of July 2026. He has been mentioned by 79 accounts, with 556 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow Leemon Baird include 136 founders, 17 angel investors, 79 influencers and 7 VCs. Among his notable followers are Eric Wall, Mario Nawfal, MoonPay, Matthew Graham, Zooko and Zmanian.