Rand is a co-founder and CEO who leads Zama, an open-source cryptography company building Fully Homomorphic Encryption solutions for blockchain. Rand's Twitter Score is 204 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #2,249 (top 0.5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Rand co-founded Zama, which raised a $57 million Series B at a valuation of over $1 billion, led by Pantera Capital and Blockchange. Zama launched and listed its native token ZAMA on February 2, 2026, and acquired TokenOps in May 2026 to bring FHE to institutional token vesting and airdrops. A US court lifted a temporary freeze on approximately $12.5 million in USDC held in Zama's cUSDC smart contract, with Zama confirmed as not a party to that dispute.
Rand is also a deeptech investor and is affiliated with CoinList, Morpho, and Steakhouse Financial. As a deeptech investor, Rand has backed DFNS, Giza, Kakarot Acquired By Zama, Usual and Optimum. Rand has published 2,603 posts on the platform and has 41,484 followers as of October 2026. Rand has been mentioned by 171 accounts, with 347 total mentions.
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