George Danezis is a cryptography and security researcher who co-founded Mysten Labs and serves as its Chief Scientist, alongside a professorship in Security and Privacy Engineering at University College London. George Danezis's Twitter Score is 82 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #9,558 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
George Danezis co-founded Mysten Labs, the infrastructure company behind the Sui blockchain. Mysten Labs raised $36 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in December 2021, followed by a $300 million Series B led by FTX Ventures at a valuation above $2 billion in September 2022. George Danezis also co-founded Chainspace, a smart contract platform that Facebook acquired in February 2019, with the team going on to contribute to the technical white papers for the Libra project. George Danezis was previously affiliated with Diem, Libra, and Novi Research at Facebook and Meta.
George Danezis has made notable contributions to applied cryptography and distributed systems research, including co-authoring the RSCoin paper, which proposed a framework for a centrally banked cryptocurrency. At University College London, George Danezis focuses on security, privacy engineering, decentralization, and machine learning. George Danezis's account has published 1,272 posts and has been mentioned by 81 accounts, with 188 total mentions.
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