Tristan is a crypto entrepreneur who co-founded Backpack, a crypto exchange developed under a Dubai regulatory regime. Tristan's Twitter Score is 355 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #808 (top 0.5%) among 389,201 tracked accounts.
Tristan previously worked at FTX before co-founding Backpack alongside Armani Ferrante and Can Sun, also former FTX employees. The team raised $17 million to build Backpack, though the project lost approximately 90% of its treasury in the FTX collapse, which saw FTX file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2022.
Tristan has remained closely involved with Backpack's development, which has included building a cryptographic proof-of-reserves system updated daily and multi-party authorization for crypto token transfers. Backpack acquired FTX EU for approximately 30 million euros, with court and regulatory approval, and began reimbursing former FTX EU customers in May 2025, with an estimated 100,000 affected savers set to receive more than 50 million euros in total. Tristan is also affiliated with Backpack EU. His profile notes he is currently on hiatus from his co-founder role.
Tristan's portfolio includes Sphere Labs, Shuffle.com, MagicBlock, Makina, Kuru and Fragmetric.
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The accounts that follow Tristan include 956 founders, 293 angel investors, 773 influencers and 34 VCs, among them Solana, Laura Shin, Toly, ZachXBT, Cobie and Ansem. Tristan has been mentioned by 110 accounts, with 351 total mentions. Tristan's account has published 17,788 posts to date.