Recap · October 1, 2025 · 2:29:25
TOP 75 Crypto Twitter Accounts You NEED To Follow in 2026
The Signal
Threadguy ranks the 75 Crypto Twitter accounts he believes are sufficient to understand the market in 2026 — not the richest traders or biggest founders, but the people whose posts explain what is happening. The final ten run from Flood's Hyperliquid conviction through Alon's industry impact, Jez's original thinking and Cobie's historical role, with Ansem at number one for his unmatched 2024 influence.
Key Takeaways
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This is an information list
Trading returns, followers and company size matter only insofar as they make an account useful for staying oriented. Range, original analysis, cultural influence and consistent posting are the recurring criteria.
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A ranking is necessarily personal
Threadguy repeatedly calls the list opinion, leaves himself off and invites viewers to build their own. Snubs are inevitable because active posting is required and the pool is larger than 75.
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The middle rewards specialists
Accounts earn places through discrete edges — macro, NFTs, onchain trading, prediction markets, AI or a single legendary public trade — rather than pretending everyone covers everything.
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The top ten mixes builders and interpreters
Alon makes it for changing crypto through Pump.fun; Unipcs for the trenches; Jez and B16Z for thinking; Flood and Trader Mayne for trades; Frank, Murad, Cobie and Ansem for shaping the culture.
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Activity beats legacy alone
Inactive greats such as GCR and L are discussed but penalized or omitted. Cobie lands second rather than first because the ranking is about what to follow now, even while Threadguy calls him the historical godfather.
On the Record
“The list, personal opinion.”
“These are the 10 people that you need to follow to know what is happening.”
“Why would you ever put money behind your second best idea?”
“He's probably the godfather of all of this shit.”
The Breakdown
Seventy-five seats, too many candidates
The stream begins with a disclaimer: this is Threadguy's personal list and the audience can make another. He ranks active accounts that help a reader understand CT, not a pure leaderboard of wealth or trading P&L. That distinction lets posters, researchers, founders, operators and culture accounts share the same field.
The long climb through CT
The first 65 entries move across subcultures and generations, with names including K Money, Dip Wheeler, Udi, OSF, Jesse Pollak, Air Mass, Cleo and Punk6529. Each placement becomes an argument about recency versus historical impact, narrow edge versus range, and whether one great trade can outweigh years of quieter usefulness.
Ten through eight: conviction and impact
Flood enters at ten for publicly urging people to buy Hyperliquid from roughly $2 through the run toward $45–50. Pump.fun founder Alon is ninth because few people changed the shape of crypto more in 2025. Unipcs takes eight as one of the year's essential trenches accounts, even above the founder whose platform enabled the game.
Seven through five: people with their own lens
B16Z ranks seventh as a sharp thinker who caught the 2023–24 shift despite trolling and reduced activity. Jez is sixth for long-form theses and original trade construction across Hyperliquid, Pokémon and other markets. Trader Mayne is fifth — Threadguy's personal goat — for the wealth and traders produced around his ideas.
Frank, Murad and the godfather
Frank ranks fourth for years of influence, company advice and persuasive clarity. Murad is third for articulating and advancing the institutional memecoin thesis despite controversy. Cobie is second: historically perhaps number one, a foundational storyteller and streamer, but less active than in 2021.
Why Ansem is number one
Ansem's 2024 arc, reach and mythical retweet make the final choice feel inevitable to Threadguy. His posts pushed attention, companies and individual careers, including Threadguy's own. The ranking closes as it began: not a claim that every placement is objective, but a ready-made feed for anyone who wants to understand the conversation.
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