Paper is a Web3 wallet and NFT checkout infrastructure product that was acquired by thirdweb in July 2023 and subsequently wound down. Paper's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #44,366 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Paper was co-founded by James Sun and Edward Sun under the legal entity Caves Inc., doing business as Paper. The product suite centered on removing crypto complexity for end users, offering email-based wallets, NFT minting infrastructure, and a checkout flow that accepted both fiat and cryptocurrency payments. Prior to its acquisition, thirdweb announced that Paper had onboarded more than 500,000 people to web3 and processed more than $10 million in transactions.
Paper raised $9.3 million in early-stage capital, comprising a $2 million angel investment followed by a $7.3 million seed round, as reported in May 2022. Backers included Electric Capital, Initialized Capital, Polygon, FalconX, Long Journey Ventures, thirdweb, and Night Capital. Following the acquisition by thirdweb, Paper's products initially continued operating independently, with integration into thirdweb's blockchain-development stack planned. Applications were no longer able to generate or connect to Paper wallets after June 2024.
Paper has published 1,563 posts and has 2,429 followers as of August 2026. The account has been mentioned by 31 accounts, with 64 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Paper include 69 founders, 27 angel investors, 19 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Stani, Mario Nawfal, Avichal Garg - Electric Capital, Ryan Wyatt, Imran and Cuy Sheffield.