Christoph Jentzsch is a blockchain entrepreneur who co-founded Slock.it and authored the white paper for The DAO. Christoph Jentzsch's Twitter Score is 120 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #5,540 (top 5%) among 496,731 tracked accounts.
Christoph Jentzsch co-founded Slock.it, a company that created The DAO with the objective of operating as a for-profit entity that would build and hold assets through the sale of DAO Tokens to investors, per the SEC's 2017 report on The DAO. He previously authored The DAO white paper, with the final draft released on or around March 23, 2016. According to Wired, The DAO raised over $168 million from around 10,000 anonymous investors, and the token sale ran from April 30, 2016 through May 28, 2016, during which approximately 1.15 billion DAO Tokens were sold for approximately 12 million ETH, valued at approximately $150 million when the offering closed, per the SEC report.
Christoph Jentzsch and his co-founders responded to a significant exploit in which an attacker used a flaw in The DAO's code to steal approximately one-third of its assets, implementing a workaround for DAO Token holders to recover their investments. The SEC investigated whether The DAO, Slock.it, its co-founders, and intermediaries may have violated federal securities laws; the Commission determined not to pursue an enforcement action based on the conduct and activities known at that time, and the report did not make findings of violations by any individual or entity. The SEC did determine, under the facts presented in its 2017 report, that DAO Tokens were securities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Christoph Jentzsch also previously worked as a core developer on Ethereum. His account has published 4,655 posts and has 86,094 followers as of October 2026. He has been mentioned by 116 accounts a total of 271 times.
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