Numerai is an AI-powered hedge fund that crowdsources machine-learning models from anonymous data scientists to drive its trading system. Numerai's Twitter Score is 160 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #3,970 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Numerai was founded by Richard Craib, whose stated goal is to build the world's last hedge fund. The fund shares masked and encrypted trading data with data scientists worldwide, who submit predictive models that feed directly into its trading decisions. Per Wired, Numerai completed a venture round in 2016 led by Union Square Ventures, which contributed $3 million of a $6 million total raise. Numerai is also backed by First Round Capital and Howard Morgan.
Numerai introduced Numeraire (NMR) in 2017 as an ERC-20 Ethereum token designed to make overfitting economically irrational in its modeling competition. Data scientists stake NMR on their predictions, earning payouts for successful models while unsuccessful stakes are destroyed. Per the Numeraire whitepaper, the smart contract is capped at 21 million NMR. Wired reported that at launch, one million Numeraire tokens were distributed to approximately 12,000 participating scientists based on historical leaderboard rankings. The NMR smart contracts have undergone security audits by New Alchemy and Trail of Bits. Numerai is also affiliated with Erasure Protocol.
Numerai has published 3,527 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 392 accounts a total of 1,269 times, reflecting sustained attention from the data science and crypto communities.
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The accounts that follow Numerai include 511 founders, 147 angel investors, 251 influencers and 27 VCs. Among them are Brian Armstrong, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Nikita Bier, 6529 and Stani.