Ben Livshits is a computer scientist and technology executive who works at Eclipse, bringing a research background spanning blockchain security, DeFi, and zero-knowledge rollups. Ben Livshits's Twitter Score is 77 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #10,415 (top 5%) among 486,573 tracked accounts.
Ben Livshits previously worked at Brave, where he was also affiliated with Brave Research and Basic Attention Token, before formerly working at ZKsync. His current employer, Eclipse, raised a $50M Series A co-led by Placeholder and Hack VC. Prior to his industry roles, he spent a decade at Microsoft Research.
Ben Livshits has an extensive academic publication record focused on blockchain infrastructure and crypto-economic risks. He co-authored a paper on the ZKsync rollup dataset, as well as research into arbitrage behavior on Ethereum ZK rollups, cross-rollup MEV, and formal foundations for blockchain rollups. His work on EVM resource metering, published as "Broken Metre: Attacking Resource Metering in EVM", earned a $5,000 Ethereum bug bounty. He has also co-authored research on cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes, DeFi lending risks, and on-chain liquidation dynamics.
Ben Livshits has published 1,629 posts on the platform and has 8,870 followers as of September 2026. He has been mentioned by 73 accounts, with 166 total mentions.
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