Mediachain Labs was an open-source, decentralized media attribution and metadata protocol designed to connect creative works with their creators and origin data. Mediachain's Twitter Score is 21 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #46,649 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Mediachain was co-founded by Jesse Walden and Denis Nazarov as a repository and protocol for preserving attribution across digital media. The project raised a $1.5 million seed round, announced on June 1, 2016, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, with additional backing from Digital Currency Group, RRE Ventures, and LDV Capital.
Mediachain also prototyped a cryptocurrency intended to reward creators and curators, though no token was publicly launched. On April 26, 2017, Spotify acquired Mediachain Labs in a deal whose financial terms were not disclosed, with the Mediachain team joining Spotify. Following the acquisition, Mediachain committed to releasing its existing technology to the open-source community.
Mediachain has 2,163 followers as of August 2026 and has published 407 posts. The account has been mentioned by 42 accounts, with 79 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Mediachain include 77 founders, 26 angel investors, 15 influencers and 4 VCs. Among them are Alexis Ohanian, Fred Wilson, Jesse Walden, Jake Brukhman, Ali Yahya and Matthew Graham.