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 99 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #8,266 (top 5%) among 531,432 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 161 accounts a total of 394 times. Ted Livingston has published 3,145 posts and has 17,143 followers as of July 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Ted Livingston include 321 founders, 84 angel investors, 114 influencers and 13 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Solana, Toly, jesse.base.eth and Erik Voorhees.