Chris is a software developer who created and maintains Solidity, the smart contract programming language developed for Ethereum. Chris's Twitter Score is 109 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #6,286 (top 5%) among 482,922 tracked accounts.
Chris, whose full name is Christian Reitwiessner, developed Solidity according to Wikipedia, and previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation on the Solidity team. He is the top contributor to the ethereum/solidity repository, with 8,998 contributions, and released Solidity v0.4.0 in September 2016. He is also affiliated with Argot Collective.
Chris spoke at Solidity Summit 2022 on the topic of recent and planned features for the language, reflecting his continued involvement in its design and development. Chris has 7,600 followers as of August 2026 and has published 2,317 posts. He has been mentioned by 93 accounts a total of 231 times.
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