elizabeth stark ⚡ (@starkness) — Twitter Score 499 out of 1000

Elizabeth Stark is the co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, the company that develops software powering the Lightning Network and offers verifiable, non-custodial Lightning-based financial services. Elizabeth Stark's Twitter Score is 499 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #349 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked.

Elizabeth Stark co-founded Lightning Labs and has led it through several significant product and fundraising milestones. On April 5, 2022, she announced Taro, a Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets on Bitcoin that can be transferred over the Lightning Network for instant, high-volume, low-fee transactions, alongside a $70M Series B round from investors including Baillie Gifford, Brevan Howard, NYDIG, Valor, Goldcrest, Kingsway, Stillmark, M13, Craft, and others. On July 23, 2024, Lightning Labs announced Taproot Assets on Lightning as the first multi-asset Lightning protocol on mainnet. On January 30, 2025, Lightning Labs and Tether announced USDt integration into Bitcoin's base layer and the Lightning Network, supported by Taproot Assets. In 2026, Lightning Labs released LND v0.21-beta on June 11 and Taproot Assets v0.8 alongside the first public release of the Taproot Assets SDK on June 23.

Elizabeth Stark is also a fellow at Coin Center and advises startups across cryptocurrency, decentralized technology, and AI. She previously taught at Stanford and formerly at Yale. She has 156,901 followers as of July 2026 on X as @starkness and has published 13,546 posts since 2007.

Elizabeth Stark has been mentioned by 809 accounts, with 2,282 total mentions across the platform.

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