Ryan Shea is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Stacks, a Bitcoin layer that enables smart contracts, decentralized applications, and bitcoin yield through its native STX token. Ryan Shea's Twitter Score is 275 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,399 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Ryan Shea co-founded the project alongside Muneeb Ali, originally under the name Blockstack, which later rebranded to Stacks in October 2020. The entity now known as Hiro PBC, formerly Blockstack PBC, launched a SEC-qualified token offering in July 2019. Blockstack also announced a $25 million fund initiative to support teams building applications on its technology, with investors including Version One, Lux Capital, OpenOcean, Rising Tide, and Compound, as identified by Axios.
Ryan Shea previously served as a Senior Advisor at the US FDA and has described himself as a 10+ unicorn investor. He holds a background in mechanical engineering and computer science from Princeton. His current work spans AI and biology experiments documented separately from his crypto activities.
As an angel investor, Ryan Shea has backed CoinTracker and Charlyn Quidato. Ryan Shea's account has 30,044 followers as of July 2026 and 12,510 posts. Ryan Shea has been mentioned by 230 accounts, with 526 total mentions.
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