Eric Zhang is a hacker-community builder and blockchain researcher who founded DoraHacks, a global hackathon and Web3 developer-incentive platform connecting builders with hackathons, grants, and ecosystem funding. Eric Zhang's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #85,282 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Eric Zhang helped organize THacks in November 2014, which led directly to the founding of DoraHacks as a global hacker community and developer-incentive platform. In 2021, the DoraHacks team launched Dora Factory, where Zhang serves as Architect, developing sustainable funding mechanisms, decentralized-governance protocols, tooling, and public-good infrastructure for open-source communities and frontier-technology builders.
Eric Zhang previously served as Board Director and Executive President at TrueChain Foundation, and in 2018 co-authored the TrueChain paper describing the Minerva hybrid-consensus protocol and related public-blockchain design. Eric Zhang is also affiliated with DoraHacks Ventures, which Zhang has described as a hacker fund with an infinite fund cycle that supports the broader Hacker Movement as part of DoraHacks.
Eric Zhang has published 2,307 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 11 accounts a total of 43 times. Eric Zhang's portfolio includes ATTA.
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The accounts that follow Eric Zhang include 60 founders, 14 angel investors, 18 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Matthew Graham, Amy Wu Martin, Owockai, Zmanian, The Rollup and YZi Labs.