Dankrad Feist is a blockchain protocol and cryptography researcher who led the development of Danksharding, Ethereum's data sharding protocol. Dankrad Feist's Twitter Score is 374 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #664 (top 0.5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Dankrad Feist previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation as a researcher and is now a researcher at Tempo, which raised a $500 million Series A at a $5 billion valuation led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital. He is also a Research Advisor to the Protocol Cluster at the Ethereum Foundation. He co-authored EIP-4844 (Shard Blob Transactions, proto-danksharding) and EIP-7594 (PeerDAS), two foundational proposals in Ethereum's scaling roadmap.
Dankrad Feist advises a range of projects in the Ethereum ecosystem, including Liquid Collective, Fluent Labs, Obol, Sovereign Labs, and Peach. He is also affiliated with Paradigm and Stripe. His disclosed token holdings above 5% of his crypto portfolio include ETH, EIGEN, and SOL. Dankrad Feist has published 5,928 posts and has been mentioned by 261 accounts, with 467 total mentions.
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