Ted Livingston is a founder and entrepreneur who created Kik Messenger and later founded the crypto payments startup Code. Ted Livingston's Twitter Score is 107 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #6,494 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Ted Livingston founded Kik Interactive, the company behind Kik Messenger, and in September 2017 launched the Kin cryptocurrency through an initial coin offering that raised $98 million. The SEC sued Kik Interactive in 2019, alleging it had conducted an illegal $100 million unregistered securities offering of Kin tokens. A U.S. District Court judge granted the SEC's motion for summary judgment in 2020, ruling that Kik's ICO had constituted an unregistered securities offering. Following the case, Kin pivoted to the Solana blockchain in 2020.
Ted Livingston also founded Code, a crypto payments organization building a micropayments app for digital goods. Code raised $6.5 million in a seed round co-led by M13 and Union Square Ventures. Ted Livingston remains affiliated with the Kin Foundation and continues to work on Kin-based payments. Ted Livingston has been mentioned by 165 accounts a total of 403 times. Ted Livingston has published 3,247 posts and has 17,098 followers as of September 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Ted Livingston include 329 founders, 92 angel investors, 95 influencers and 13 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Solana, Erik Voorhees, Toly and jesse.base.eth.