Henry is a cryptographer and software engineer who founded Penumbra, a fully private, cross-chain proof-of-stake network and decentralized exchange built for the Cosmos ecosystem. Henry's Twitter Score is 183 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #3,123 (top 1%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Henry founded Penumbra, which went live in July 2024 and completed a $4.75M seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. Penumbra Labs subsequently announced it was winding down operations in 2025. Previously, Henry worked at the Zcash Foundation, as well as formerly at Interstellar, Chain Inc., and Cloudflare.
Henry has contributed to several notable cryptography projects, including curve25519-dalek, Ristretto, Bulletproofs, Merlin, and a Schnorr ZKP toolkit. Ristretto, a technique he worked on, was later standardized by the IETF as RFC 9496. Henry has 15,740 followers as of July 2026 and has published 42,114 posts.
Henry's portfolio includes Entropy.
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The accounts that follow Henry include 603 founders, 191 angel investors, 247 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Toly, Laura Shin, Ansem, Kyle Samani, Udi BIP-110 and Haseeb. Henry has been mentioned by 138 accounts a total of 421 times.