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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 writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time.

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