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What's Next for Crypto Twitter & Onchain Social

Crypto Twitter feels broken – can X fix it? And where does onchain social fit in?
What's Next for Crypto Twitter & Onchain Social
William M. Peaster William M. Peaster
Jan 30, 2026 • 5 min read
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Crypto Twitter has long been the town square for crypto.

I owe my current career to the app – I started curating cryptoart news tweets in January 2020 for my DeFi Arts Intelligencer column; one year later, Bankless brought this newsletter on as Metaversal, which I still write to this day.

Yet now, something is sour in the state of Crypto Twitter, and that sourness itself is symptomatic of deeper problems.

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he covers the onchain frontier with a particular interest in art, games, and other culture apps. He has a background in creative writing and writes fiction in his free time.

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