Ari Juels is a cryptographer and professor who co-authored the Chainlink whitepaper and co-founded the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3). Ari Juels's Twitter Score is 91 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #8,265 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Ari Juels holds the Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Professor chair at Cornell Tech, where his research spans cryptography, blockchain technologies, and AI security. He serves as Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs and co-directs the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), which he co-founded. He previously served as a technical advisor to Chainlink.
Ari Juels co-authored the foundational ChainLink: A Decentralized Oracle Network whitepaper alongside Steve Ellis and Sergey Nazarov, a document that laid the conceptual groundwork for decentralized oracle infrastructure. His current research interests extend to the intersection of AI and security, and a paper he contributed to on arXiv in 2025 examined how AI agents with access to cryptocurrencies and smart contracts could introduce new categories of harm. He is also the author of the novel The Oracle.
Ari Juels has 14,504 followers as of August 2026 on the platform and has published 674 posts. He has been mentioned by 110 accounts, with 343 total mentions.
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