Derek Chiang is a blockchain infrastructure founder who built ZeroDev, a smart-account and wallet-infrastructure platform that was acquired by Offchain Labs in 2025. Derek Chiang's Twitter Score is 71 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #11,549 (top 5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Derek Chiang founded ZeroDev to bring account abstraction to Ethereum, launching the project at ETHDenver 2023 as the first account-abstraction solution to go live on Ethereum mainnet. ZeroDev's team collaborated directly with the Ethereum Foundation and sent the first ERC-4337 transaction on Ethereum. The project also co-authored ERC-7579, a standard for modular smart accounts, and its flagship product is Kernel, a modular smart account. ZeroDev participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch and, at the time of its acquisition by Offchain Labs, reported powering more than 5 million smart accounts across more than 50 EVM-compatible chains. Chiang states that he continues to run ZeroDev following the acquisition.
Derek Chiang also co-founded Eternal as its CTO. Earlier in his career, he previously worked at DFINITY as a Senior Engineer and formerly served as Director of DApp Development at ThunderCore. Derek Chiang has published 613 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 42 accounts a total of 65 times.
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