Christopher Goes is a blockchain protocol developer and researcher who co-founded Anoma and served as the lead designer of the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. Christopher Goes's Twitter Score is 125 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #5,687 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Christopher Goes previously worked at Tendermint as a core developer, where he led the design of IBC, the cross-chain messaging standard that became foundational to the Cosmos ecosystem. He authored the paper "The Interblockchain Communication Protocol: An Overview," published in 2020, which formally documented the protocol's architecture and design rationale. He also co-founded Cryptium Labs and Metastate, both research-oriented organizations in the blockchain space.
Christopher Goes is additionally known as the primary developer of the Wyvern Protocol, the smart contract infrastructure used by OpenSea for NFT trading over a significant period. He currently works at Anoma Foundation, which he co-founded. The Anoma Foundation raised USD 25M in a third fundraising round co-led by CMCC Global with Electric Capital participating, and separately raised $2.5M in a community-driven round led by Native Crypto and CMS Holdings. Christopher Goes has been active on the platform since 2016, with 2,888 posts to date. He has been mentioned by 151 accounts, with 577 total mentions.
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Christopher Goes draws a technically focused following across the crypto industry. The accounts that follow Christopher Goes include 487 founders, 159 angel investors, 142 influencers and 10 VCs, among them Ansem, Laura Shin, Kyle Samani, OpenSea, Hasu and Foobar.