A brief guide to Crypto Twitter

The subject of many memes, inside jokes and drama; those looking to keep abreast of the never ending torrent of crypto news tend to flock to Crypto Twitter (or 'CT').

Whether or not you support a centralized platform having so much importance in a decentralized world, Twitter's widespread adoption means that you can easily take part in the discussion, and chat with thought leaders and protocol builders from all over the world.

So, without further ado, here is a short (and non-exhaustive) list of some of the best Crypto and DeFi Twitter accounts you should be following:

The Top 5 DeFi Twitter accounts to follow

vitalik.eth

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin

Perhaps this should go without saying, but Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is our first pick here.

Lately he has committed to tweeting more long-form tweets as opposed to regular updates - but if you want to keep informed on what's happening in Ethereum moving forwards, this is the account to follow.

Antiprosynthesis.eth

https://twitter.com/antiprosynth

The ultimate Ethereum news aggregator; Antiprosynth's work picking out the most relevant crypto tweets from the noise is valuable enough that it has even raised a sizeable Gitcoin grant from the community.

Anthony Sassano | sassal.eth

https://twitter.com/sassal0x

With a host of advisory and founder roles to his name, it's an understatement to say that Sassal is well-versed in crypto. Whether it's retweets on choice DeFi updates, market sentiment or memes, Sassal has the content that keeps us coming back.

Ryan Sean Adams - rsa.eth

https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams

Founder of the DeFi Newsletter Bankless, RSA's combination of unabashed DeFi-maximalism and level-headed opinions make him another star pick for our lineup.

Eric.eth

https://twitter.com/econoar

Co-author of the EIP-1559 proposal, and co-founder of Ethhub, we chose Eric because of his focus on delivering updates on key Ethereum milestones and development progress. However he regularly tweets about DeFi and the wider ecosystem as well.

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As you might have noticed by now, it's a common practice in DeFi twitter to use an ENS (similar to a domain name, but for Ethereum) as your twitter handle. This is usually a good way of identifying if someone is pro-Ethereum.

And a whole lot more...

To make it easier, we have condensed this entire section into a handy Twitter List, which you can follow.

Many more DeFi thought leaders:

Arthur_0x (DeFiance) - https://twitter.com/Arthur_0x

Chris Burniske (PlaceholderVC) - https://twitter.com/cburniske

David Hoffman (Bankless) - https://twitter.com/TrustlessState

DCInvestor - https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor

DeFi Dad (ZapperZapper) - https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad

Camila Russo (The Defiant) - https://twitter.com/CamiRusso

Coopahtroopa (Audius) - https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa

Evan Van Ness - https://twitter.com/evan_van_ness

Hayden Adams (Uniswap) - https://twitter.com/haydenzadams

Hudson Jameson - https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson

Itamar Lesuisse (Argent) - https://twitter.com/itamarl

Jake Brukhman (NFTs) - https://twitter.com/jbrukh

Kain.eth (Synthetix) - https://twitter.com/kaiynne

Larry Cermac (The Block) - https://twitter.com/lawmaster

Marc Zeller (Aave) - https://twitter.com/lemiscate

Qiao Wang (DeFi Alliance) - https://twitter.com/QwQiao

Ric Burton - https://twitter.com/ricburton

Robert Leshner (Compound) - https://twitter.com/rleshner

Scott Lewis (DeFi Pulse) - https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is

Spencer Noon (Variant) - https://twitter.com/spencernoon

Stani Kulechov (Aave) - https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov

And of course, who could forget, @EthereumMemes!

Developers

More technically-oriented

Alexintosh (PieDAO) - https://twitter.com/Alexintosh

Andre Cronje (Yearn) - https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech

Austin Griffith - https://twitter.com/austingriffith

banteg (Yearn) - https://twitter.com/bantg

Fernando (Balancer) - https://twitter.com/fcmartinelli

Pedro Gomes (WalletConnect) - https://twitter.com/pedrouid

Yield Farming/Degen

Heavy irony and lots of memes

ChainLinkGod (Chainlink) - https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod

CL207 - https://twitter.com/CL207

Degen Spartan - https://twitter.com/DegenSpartan

Private Chad - https://twitter.com/Privatechad_

SalsaTekila - https://twitter.com/SalsaTekila

Santiago R Santos - https://twitter.com/santiagoroel/

Scoopy trooples - https://twitter.com/scupytrooples

Crypto Funds, VCs & Partners

Investing in the future of finance

Paradigm (VC) - https://twitter.com/paradigm

Dan Robinson (Paradigm) - https://twitter.com/danrobinson

Arjun Balaji (Paradigm) - https://twitter.com/arjunblj

Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm) - https://twitter.com/FEhrsam

Matt Huang (Paradigm) - https://twitter.com/matthuang

Charlie Noyes (Paradigm) - https://twitter.com/_charlienoyes

Vance Spencer (Framework Ventures) - https://twitter.com/pythianism

Kyle Davis (Three Arrows Capital) - https://twitter.com/kyled116

Linda Xie (Scalar Capital) - https://twitter.com/ljxie

Chris Burniske (Placeholder) - https://twitter.com/cburniske

Maple Leaf Capital (VC) - https://twitter.com/MapleLeafCap

Spencer Noon (Variant Fund) - https://twitter.com/spencernoon

Protocols & Platforms

Aave - https://twitter.com/AaveAave

Argent - https://twitter.com/argenthq

Balancer - https://twitter.com/BalancerLabs

Compound - https://twitter.com/compoundfinance

The Defiant - https://twitter.com/DefiantNews

DeFi Pulse - https://twitter.com/defipulse

Gitcoin - https://twitter.com/gitcoin

Lido - https://twitter.com/LidoFinance

Maker - https://twitter.com/MakerDAO

Paraswap - https://twitter.com/paraswap

PoolTogether - https://twitter.com/PoolTogether_

Uniswap - https://twitter.com/Uniswap

WalletConnect - https://twitter.com/WalletConnect

Zapper - https://twitter.com/zapper_fi

Zerion - https://twitter.com/zerion_io

Crypto Twitter is a huge space, and this list only begins to scratch the surface of what's out there. We encourage you to look around and find the information that's most useful to your situation.

Of course, if you want to keep up with all things going on at Argent, you can always find us @ArgentHQ