Mike Dudas founded The Block, a crypto news and data publication, and co-founded 6th Man Ventures, a crypto-and-AI-focused venture firm where he serves as Managing Partner. Mike Dudas's Twitter Score is 955 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #29 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked, with 1,158,897 followers as of July 2026. He is among the 36 accounts on the platform that score above 900.
Mike Dudas launched The Block in early 2018, with the company raising $4 million from Greycroft, Pantera Capital, BlockTower Capital, and Bloomberg Beta. He previously served as CEO of The Block before stepping down in 2020. In December 2022, The Block disclosed that his successor had taken undisclosed loans totaling $43 million from Alameda Research; he publicly stated he was exploring ways to return the publication to trustworthy ownership and expressed interest in buying it back. The Block later sold more than an 80% stake to Singapore-based Foresight Ventures in a $56 million deal at a $70 million valuation.
Mike Dudas co-founded 6th Man Ventures with a first fund of $7.4 million; the firm closed a second fund of $145 million in May 2022, writing checks of $1 to $4 million for pre-seed to Series A crypto companies. Fund 2 limited partners included Galaxy Vision Hill, Three Arrows Capital, Sino Global Capital, FTX Ventures, and Animoca Brands, alongside individual investors including Bill Ackman, Marc Andreessen, and Chris Dixon. By May 2022, the firm had completed investments in over 100 projects and protocols. Portfolio companies include Set Labs, Center, CoinLedger, Gomu, YoloHub, LAGO, RareCircles and Pixelverse. He also co-founded LinksDAO, a DAO built around reimagining golf country clubs through global membership, and previously worked at Paxos.
Mike Dudas has published 26 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 1,245 accounts a total of 3,444 times.
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