Xinshu is a crypto researcher and co-author of the Bitcoin Staking protocol paper who is affiliated with Babylon and was formerly associated with Zilliqa. Xinshu's Twitter Score is 63 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #13,396 (top 5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Xinshu is listed as an author of the arXiv paper "Bitcoin Staking," submitted in August 2024, which describes a protocol enabling Bitcoin holders to trustlessly put idle bitcoin to work securing a proof-of-stake chain. A version of that protocol was deployed to secure the Babylon mainnet in April 2025, with more than 58,000 bitcoins staked at launch. At the time of research, the Babylon Labs site reported over 56,853 BTC staked, representing more than $5.6 billion in value.
Xinshu has 6,210 followers as of August 2026 and has published 1,406 posts. Xinshu has been mentioned by 76 accounts a total of 174 times.
Xinshu's portfolio includes Derive.xyz, Waterfall DeFi, Hashtagger, Suberra Web 3.0 Payments, Finblox, Rio Network, Solayer Mainnet Arc and Firewall.
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