Ben DiFrancesco is a software engineer and entrepreneur who founded ScopeLift and builds Umbra, an EVM stealth-payments protocol. Ben DiFrancesco's Twitter Score is 166 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #3,188 (top 1%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Ben DiFrancesco founded ScopeLift, where he also serves as CEO and senior engineer. He is a core contributor to Umbra, a stealth-payments protocol deployed across five EVM-compatible networks that has processed more than $500 million in value across over 350,000 transactions. His work on Umbra is grounded in formal standards authorship: he authored ERC-5564, the Final Standards Track Ethereum Request for Comment defining stealth addresses for private, non-interactive transactions, and ERC-6538, the Final Standards Track ERC establishing a stealth meta-address registry.
Ben DiFrancesco has also published academic research, authoring the arXiv paper BaseSAP: Modular Stealth Address Protocol for Programmable Blockchains, which extends stealth address concepts to programmable blockchain environments. His combined work across protocol development, standards authorship, and research positions him as a focused contributor to on-chain privacy infrastructure. Ben DiFrancesco has 8,459 followers as of September 2026 and has published 17,072 posts. He has been mentioned by 116 accounts, with 227 total mentions.
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