Dan Boneh is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University whose research spans applied cryptography, computer security, and cryptography for blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Dan Boneh's Twitter Score is 155 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #3,548 (top 1%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Dan Boneh co-directs the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research alongside David Mazières, a focused research effort on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies that Stanford announced in June 2018. The center's initial five-year research program was underwritten by gifts from the Ethereum Foundation, Protocol Labs, Interchain Foundation, OmiseGO, DFINITY Stiftung, and PolyChain Capital. Dan Boneh also co-directs the Stanford Computer Security Lab and teaches CS251, a course on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies covering decentralized applications, consensus protocols, cryptography, and security, with offerings running continuously from 2015 through Fall 2025.
Dan Boneh co-founded Voltage Security, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2015. His research contributions include the Boneh-Franklin identity-based encryption scheme, proposed in 2001 using the Weil pairing, and the BLS digital signature scheme, named for Boneh, Lynn, and Shacham, which is used in proof-of-stake Ethereum's consensus layer for validator signature aggregation. Dan Boneh co-authored a 2019 paper describing a Dogecoin-Ethereum bridge construction and a 2022 paper on cryptoeconomic security for Layer 2 data availability committees. He is also affiliated with the Science of Blockchain Conference.
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