Sam (@samnode_) — Twitter Score 97 out of 1000

Sam is a French-language crypto creator and node operator who founded both Node Guardians and Terminal Finance, the latter of which has since been permanently shut down. Sam's Twitter Score is 97 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #7,496 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Sam founded Node Guardians as an RPG-style, fantasy-themed web3 education platform offering quests and campaigns covering Solidity, Cairo, Noir, Huff, CTFs, and smart contract security. The platform launched in November 2022 and exited beta in March 2024 with a refined interface and new features. Sam represented the project at EthCC in July 2023, and Node Guardians expanded its Cairo and STARKs curriculum for Starknet developers, partnering with OnlyDust in March 2024 so users completing Cairo quests could earn additional rewards through open-source contributions. The project's public GitHub organization maintains repositories for quests and node and validator infrastructure across networks including KYVE, EigenDA, and Namada.

Sam also founded Terminal Finance, announced in June 2025 as a spot DEX and marketplace native to the Converge chain, focused on reward-bearing stablecoins and institutional assets referencing Ethena sUSDe and Securitize tokenized securities. Per a CoinDesk article shared by the project, Terminal Finance reached $280M in pre-launch deposits by October 2025. In November 2025, Sam announced that Terminal Finance would not launch because the Converge chain never went live as expected; user deposits remained backed one-to-one and the audited codebase was open-sourced. The project has since been permanently discontinued, with yield-claim and predeposit withdrawal contracts kept available. In January 2026, Terminal Finance announced it was preparing a pro-rata redistribution of approximately $2.8M in sUSDe yield accrued between June and September 2025 for eligible tUSDe exposure holders.

Sam publicly outlined a strategy centered on running nodes, staking on relevant networks, building tooling, and scouting new ecosystem opportunities, and has hosted live streams for his French-speaking audience. Sam has 80,986 followers as of August 2026 and 3,009 posts on X. Sam has been mentioned by 39 accounts a total of 68 times.

Sam has backed Lava Network, Prisma Finance, Mitosis, Aligned, Overload and defi.money.

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The accounts that follow Sam include 335 founders, 124 angel investors, 123 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Toly, SBF, Db, Larry Cermak, Eric Wall and Emin Gn Sirer.