Torus Labs is an open-source, non-custodial key management network that rebranded as Web3Auth before being acquired by Consensys effective June 2, 2025, with plans to integrate it into MetaMask. Torus's Twitter Score is 3.3 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #212,841 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Torus was co-founded by Yong Zhen Yu and Leonard Tan, initially building a distributed key-generation protocol before pivoting its identity toward authentication and wallet infrastructure under the Web3Auth brand. The project raised a $2M seed round in 2019 and a $13M Series A in 2022, drawing backing from Multicoin Capital, Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Accomplice, Sixth Horizon, Terminal, and Bitcoin.com, and was previously backed by FTX. Torus also engaged CertiK for a security audit of its distributed-key-generation implementation.
Torus had supported nearly 50 million end users and powered more than 8,200 dapps at the time of its acquisition by Consensys. Torus has published 5 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 152 accounts a total of 300 times.
Who follows Torus on X?
The accounts that follow Torus include 14 founders, 2 angel investors, 9 influencers and 1 VCs, among them DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Ivan On Tech Head Trader Bullmania, MartyParty, Web3Auth, bizyugo.hl and SW4GN3R.ink.