Pencilflip is a researcher at OpenAI who previously co-founded the Solana NFT marketplace Formfunction. Pencilflip's Twitter Score is 56 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #18,121 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Pencilflip, whose real name is Matt Lim, co-founded Formfunction, a creator-focused NFT marketplace built on Solana. The platform raised a $4.7M seed round led by Variant Fund, with participation from Solana Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Pear VC, Palm Tree Crew Crypto, and OpenSea Ventures. Formfunction supported over 4,000 creators and generated $5M for artists in its first year before shutting down its NFT website on March 29, 2023. Pencilflip served as CTO of the project.
Pencilflip also founded Nifty Pixels and co-founded Mycoverse. Earlier in his career, he built Hammyflip, a coin-flip game on Solana devnet, and developed ERC-721 contracts for the Psychedelics Anonymous NFT project. He previously worked at Meta as a Senior Software Engineer. Pencilflip also conducted a survey of 22 leading NFT projects, mentioned by Amber Group, which found that 50% stored files on centralized servers.
Pencilflip has accumulated 6,643 followers as of July 2026 across 3,770 posts. Pencilflip has been mentioned by 39 accounts a total of 91 times.
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The accounts that follow Pencilflip include 193 founders, 66 angel investors, 84 influencers and 2 VCs. Among them are Toly, Mert, Kyle Samani, Georgios Konstantopoulos, Jackbutcher and John Wang.