Urbit is a decentralized personal server and peer-to-peer network built with networking, ownership, and durability as foundational design principles. Urbit's Twitter Score is 242 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #1,640 (top 0.5%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Urbit was founded by Curtis Yarvin, who resigned from Tlon Corporation and left the project in 2019. Development and stewardship of the project has since continued through Tlon Corporation and the Urbit Foundation. Urbit is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, and its source code is maintained on GitHub.
Urbit implements its identity layer, Urbit ID, as a public-key infrastructure using NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. To reduce gas costs, Tlon Corporation introduced Urbit ID Layer 2 naive rollups in 2021. The project describes itself as a computer that users can trust to be theirs permanently, combining a personal server with a peer-to-peer network and an Ethereum-based identity system in a single integrated stack.
Urbit has published 7,677 posts and has 33,122 followers as of September 2026. Urbit has been mentioned by 303 accounts, with 959 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Urbit include 791 founders, 268 angel investors, 249 influencers and 13 VCs, among them Erik Voorhees, Chris Dixon, Toly, Ansem, Laura Shin and Chris Burniske.