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 July 2026, ranking #1,693 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 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 7,505 posts and has 33,195 followers as of July 2026. Urbit has been mentioned by 297 accounts, with 948 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Urbit include 781 founders, 235 angel investors, 317 influencers and 13 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Toly, Ansem, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin and Chris Burniske.