ETH Zurich is the official English-language account of ETH Zurich, a science and technology university whose research spans blockchain security, cryptography, smart contracts, and consensus protocols. ETH Zurich's Twitter Score is 15 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #66,371 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
ETH Zurich conducts blockchain and cryptography research through its interdisciplinary ICE Center, which covers areas including public-blockchain privacy, smart-contract security and verification, blockchain compilers, consensus protocols, and network-level attacks. The ICE Center produced Securify, a system for automated smart-contract security verification, and BTC-Hijack, a tool developed to expose security weaknesses in cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. ETH Zurich also operates the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC), extending its security research across a broader set of privacy and information-security topics.
ETH Zurich has generated notable real-world impact through its research community. A spin-off company, ChainSecurity, identified a critical vulnerability in a scheduled Ethereum network upgrade and alerted the core development team, prompting the upgrade to be halted before deployment. An ETH Zurich professor also joined the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3), establishing a formal research collaboration between the two institutions. The university's work has drawn backing from Ethereum Foundation and Web3 Foundation. ETH Zurich has been mentioned by 111 accounts a total of 677 times. ETH Zurich's account has published 9,208 posts and has 94,761 followers as of October 2026.
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The accounts that follow ETH Zurich include 78 founders, 14 angel investors, 21 influencers and 5 VCs. Among its notable followers are Gabriel Shapiro, Jake Brukhman, Matthew Graham, Consensys.eth, Julien B and dcbuilder.eth.