Violet is a blockchain-native compliance infrastructure project that built privacy-preserving, reusable on-chain identity tools before transitioning to Nudge. Violet's Twitter Score is 28 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #35,080 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Violet operated as compliance infrastructure for decentralized finance, offering tools for anti-money laundering, geo-blocking, and sybil resistance under DeFi Labs GmbH, represented by Markus Maier and Philipp Banhardt. Its product suite included four components: VioletID, Full AML, GeoFencing, and Sybil. VioletID was designed as a proof of unique personhood tied to a verified human identity, with off-chain personally identifiable information held in encrypted storage and never written on-chain, while the on-chain credential shared only a binary compliance signal.
Violet was also affiliated with Mauve, a non-custodial decentralized exchange for real-world assets that described itself as built with VioletID, and with Humanbound. Backing came from Balderton, Blue Yard, Brevan Howard, Coinbase, Ethereal Ventures, Fintech Collective, and Inflection. Violet has published 141 posts and has been mentioned by 7 accounts a total of 15 times.
Who follows Violet on X?
The accounts that follow Violet include 136 founders, 52 angel investors, 29 influencers and 5 VCs, among them Santiago R Santos, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, mikedemarais.eth, Laurence, Jane Lippencott and Maria.