Ryan Trost is a product executive and co-founder who serves as Chief Product Officer at Linera, a Layer-1 protocol built around parallel microchains for real-time, agentic Web3 applications. Ryan Trost's Twitter Score is 49 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #18,920 (top 5%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Ryan Trost co-founded Know Your Horses, a third-party analytics suite for the NFT horse-racing game ZED RUN, alongside Tyler Klose. Virtually Human later acquired Know Your Horses, describing it as a data-and-analytics onboarding tool for ZED RUN. Following that acquisition, Ryan Trost previously worked at Virtually Human, where he focused on token design, game economy, and strategy across the ZED product suite, including ZED Champions, a digital horse-racing platform built on Base using the ZED Token. Ryan Trost also formerly worked at Lucky Trader in a role focused on ZED content and strategy.
Ryan Trost now builds at Linera, where he leads product and is developing Linera Markets, a continuously restarting parimutuel market platform covering crypto, ETFs, and other assets, with markets running as briefly as one minute and instant payouts. Linera has raised a total of $12 million in funding, with a $6 million seed round led by Borderless Capital in August 2023 and a prior $6 million round led by a16z crypto in June 2022. Ryan Trost has published 7,902 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 40 accounts across 80 total mentions.
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