Zainan Victor Zhou is a founder and smart-contract architect who created Namefi, a protocol that tokenizes conventional DNS domain names on Ethereum as NFTs for use in trading and DeFi. Zainan Victor Zhou's Twitter Score is 48 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #19,322 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Zainan Victor Zhou founded Namefi, which is operated by D3Serve Labs Inc., an ICANN-accredited registrar. The protocol enables domain-name holders to bring conventional DNS assets on-chain, supporting their use in DeFi and peer-to-peer trading. Namefi has also partnered with Sign Protocol to connect on-chain signatures with domain-name authentication.
Zainan Victor Zhou is an active editor of the Ethereum Improvement Proposals process and has authored multiple ERC standards, including ERC-2135, ERC-5679, and ERC-5269, among others. Previously, he served as Tech Lead for smart-contract architecture on the blockchain team at Google Labs. Zainan Victor Zhou has published 7,812 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 21 accounts a total of 45 times.
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