zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ (@zooko) — Twitter Score 583 out of 1000

Zooko is Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, who co-founded Zcash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency using zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs), and co-founded Electric Coin Company. Zooko's Twitter Score is 582 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #203 (top 0.1%) out of 483,652 accounts tracked.

Zooko launched Zcash with ticker ZEC in 2016 through Electric Coin Company, which was formed in 2015 and raised $715,000 from investors, with Naval Ravikant, Barry Silbert, and Roger Ver among the early backers and Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Andresen listed as advisors. He previously served as CEO of Electric Coin Company, stepping down in December 2023 when Josh Swihart took over, and remains a director on the board of the Bootstrap Project.

Zooko works at Shielded Labs as chief product officer and serves as a strategic adviser to Cypherpunk Technologies. He also co-founded Least Authority Enterprises. As of a 2026 WSJ report, Cypherpunk Technologies had stockpiled more than 300,000 ZEC. Zooko's tracked portfolio includes Ingonyama Now MoonMath AI.

Zooko has posted 149,320 times since 2008 and has 111,162 followers as of August 2026 on X. He has been mentioned by 1,067 accounts, with 3,742 total mentions. Research on Zcash's privacy properties includes a 2018 academic paper finding that usage patterns could reduce the shielded pool anonymity set through heuristics, and a 2020 RAND Corporation study of eight major dark web marketplaces that found less than 1% of cryptocurrency mentions were Zcash, concluding there was little evidence that privacy coins were preferred by criminals.

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Zooko draws followers across the crypto and technology space. The accounts that follow Zooko include 2,369 founders, 569 angel investors, 761 influencers and 48 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Solana, vitalik.eth and Marc Andreessen.