Gavin Wood is a Web3 technologist who co-founded Ethereum and Polkadot, and founded Parity Technologies, Web3 Foundation, and Kusama. Gavin Wood's Twitter Score is 508 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking him #313 out of 483,944 tracked accounts, with 443,740 followers on X. Gavin Wood ranks #313 (top 0.1%) out of 483,944 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Gavin Wood coded Ethereum's first functional client in January 2014 and authored the Ethereum Yellow Paper, co-designing the EVM, the gas model, and the caller-pays account model. He also conceived Solidity, the RPC standard, and the Whisper and Swarm protocols. He previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation as CTO, departing after around two years to found Parity Technologies, then called Ethcore, with several Ethereum alumni. He is credited with coining the term Web3, originally Web 3.0, in 2014. Gavin Wood has published 1,299 posts on X and is mentioned by 811 accounts, with 2,776 total mentions.
Gavin Wood co-founded Polkadot alongside Robert Habermeier and Peter Czaban, publishing the Polkadot white paper in 2016. Polkadot aims to provide a scalable and interoperable framework for multiple chains with pooled security, with DOT as its native cryptocurrency. An October 2017 token sale raised the equivalent of $140 million in Ethereum, including $83 million Swiss Francs in a private round. In 2017, a Parity multisig wallet vulnerability froze approximately $150 million worth of Ethereum, including a portion of Polkadot ICO funds, reported as a code vulnerability with no legal finding against Wood. Gavin Wood was previously affiliated with Polychain Capital, Scytale Capital, GridSingularity, Blockchain Capital, and Blockchange Capital. His tracked portfolio includes Astar Network, Gear Technologies, Zama, CypherMOD Official, AltLayer, PUBLIC PRESSURE, Tanssi and Satori.
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