Metagov is a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory that advances digital self-governance, network governance, and DAO governance tooling, co-founded by Joshua Tan and Louis Kang. Metagov's Twitter Score is 30 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #31,780 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Metagov was co-founded by Joshua Tan and Louis Kang following a Harvard Law School seminar and became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit in January 2020. Liz Barry currently serves as Executive Director. The organization focuses on community sovereignty, network governance, and statecraft in the context of AI, operating at the intersection of academic research and practical infrastructure for online communities.
Metagov develops and maintains several active projects across the governance stack. DAOstar is a standards body for the DAO ecosystem working on EIP-4824, while PolicyKit enables communities to author and execute governance procedures on online platforms. Govbase serves as a structured database of projects, organizations, and datasets covering online and crypto governance. Metagov also operates MetagovDAO, a funding body for qualitative DAO governance research supported by the Ethereum community via GitcoinDAO.
Metagov has received backing from a broad set of ecosystem funders and protocols, including Optimism Collective, Ethereum Foundation, Gitcoin, Filecoin Foundation, Mina Foundation, GnosisDAO, Aragon, Arbitrum, ENS, MetaCartel Ventures, NEAR, Commonwealth, Octant, Stellar, and Radicle. Metagov has published 519 posts and has been mentioned by 62 accounts a total of 178 times.
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The accounts that follow Metagov include 155 founders, 47 angel investors, 40 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Owockai, Notsofast, Dave White, NEAR Protocol, monetsupply.eth and dcbuilder.eth.