Dankrad Feist is a blockchain protocol and cryptography researcher focused on Ethereumscaling, data availability, danksharding, and payments infrastructure. He works as a researcher at Tempo, a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoin payments incubated by Paradigm and Stripe that raised a $500m Series A at a $5b valuation led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital, with Sequoia, Ribbit Capital, and SV Angel also participating. He serves as a research advisor to the Protocol Cluster at the Ethereum Foundation, having previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation as a researcher. His TwitterScore is 351 out of 1000.

Dankrad Feist led development of Ethereum's data sharding protocol, often called Danksharding. He is a co-author of EIP-4844, the Shard Blob Transactions proto-danksharding proposal created on 2022-02-25 and marked Final, which shipped in March 2024. He is also a co-author of EIP-7594, PeerDAS (Peer Data Availability Sampling), a Final core EIP created on 2024-01-12 that shipped in December 2025. His official site describes his research focus as cryptography and protocol research across data availability, polynomial commitments, and blockchain scaling without giving up verifiability.

Dankrad Feist holds advisory positions with Liquid Collective, Fluent Labs, Obol, Sovereign Labs, and Peach. His official disclosure page, last updated December 2025, lists significant token holdings over 5% of his crypto portfolio as ETH, EIGEN, and SOL.

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