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 125 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #6,175 (top 5%) among 389,587 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 10,670 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 648 accounts a total of 4,084 times. Zilliqa's portfolio includes XCAD Network and Valkyrie.
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The accounts that follow Zilliqa include 361 founders, 73 angel investors, 295 influencers and 60 VCs. Among them are Solana, Kyle Samani, Mike Novogratz, Zeneca, Mario Nawfal and Sandeep.