Ed Felten is a cryptography and security researcher who co-founded Offchain Labs, where he serves as Co-Founder and Chief Scientist. Ed Felten's Twitter Score is 222 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,936 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Ed Felten co-founded Offchain Labs, the team behind the Arbitrum ecosystem and a key contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem. Offchain Labs raised $120 million in a Series B round led by Lightspeed. Alongside his industry work, Ed Felten is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Emeritus, and the Founding Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.
Ed Felten previously served as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ed Felten also previously served as a Board Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a position from which he was removed and subsequently reinstated following a court order. Ed Felten's account has accumulated 27,169 followers as of August 2026 and 1,635 posts, and has been mentioned by 267 accounts a total of 660 times.
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