Zilliqa is a Layer-1 smart-contract blockchain platform built on a sharded architecture, using the Scilla smart-contract language, and currently advancing its Zilliqa 2.0 upgrade. Zilliqa's Twitter Score is 115 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,823 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Zilliqa was co-founded by Prateek Saxena, Xinshu Dong, Yaoqi Jia, and Amrit Kumar, with its mainnet launching in June 2019. The project raised $22 million across three rounds via ICO. Zilliqa is affiliated with Zilliqa Research and Anquan Capital, and is backed by IOSG Ventures. Alexander Zahnd currently serves as interim CEO, while Matt Dyer previously held the CEO role.
Zilliqa launched its Zilliqa 2.0 mainnet by June 30, 2025, marking a significant protocol milestone. In February 2025, an exploit on X-Bridge leveraged a vulnerability in a token manager contract; the team paused the affected contracts and deployed replacements to contain the incident.
Zilliqa has published 10,693 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 653 accounts a total of 4,092 times. Zilliqa's portfolio includes XCAD Network, Valkyrie and TokenTraxx BeThePlatform.
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The accounts that follow Zilliqa include 398 founders, 96 angel investors, 268 influencers and 31 VCs. Among them are Solana, Kyle Samani, Mike Novogratz, Jeremy Allaire - jerallaire.arc, Sandeep and John Wang.