Tachyon is a blockchain-based decentralized internet protocol designed to reconstruct the TCP/IP stack using end-to-end encryption, traffic concealment, multipath routing, and multi-relaying. Tachyon's Twitter Score is 3.1 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #230,615 among 498,071 tracked accounts.
Tachyon was co-founded by Sunny King, Alex Yang, Jacob Gadikian, and Peerchemist as founding members. The protocol is affiliated with V SYSTEMS, the blockchain on which its native utility token, IPX, resides, with an initial supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. Tachyon did not conduct an ICO, instead pursuing funding through private sales, with community donations and technical support from X-VPN covering initial research and development.
Tachyon's first application built on the protocol was Tachyon VPN, demonstrating a practical use case for the network stack's privacy and security architecture. Tachyon has published 945 posts on the platform. The most recent clearly dated project update on record was a weekly report covering late October 2022.
Tachyon has been mentioned by 24 accounts, with 51 total mentions.
Who follows Tachyon on X?
The accounts that follow Tachyon include 10 founders, 2 angel investors and 5 influencers, among them Matthew Graham, Jacob Gadikian, Charles d'Haussy, Harry Halpin - Nym, CryptoDiffer Analytics and Dr. Steven Waterhouse.