S El Damaty is a technologist and entrepreneur who co-founded Holonym Foundation and serves as CEO of human.tech, building zero-knowledge identity and privacy infrastructure. S El Damaty's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #44,501 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
S El Damaty co-founded Holonym Foundation alongside founding OpSci, with his work centered on proof of personhood, self-custodial wallet infrastructure, and private identity proofs. He is also a co-author of Holonym's technical whitepaper on private identity proofs. Holonym Foundation raised a $5.5 million seed round announced in August 2024, led by Finality Capital and Paper Ventures, with participation from Arrington Capital, Draper Dragon, Lightshift, Zero Knowledge Ventures, Zero DAO, and other investors.
S El Damaty and Holonym Foundation completed the acquisition of Passport XYZ, the team behind Gitcoin Passport, in December 2024. The combination was publicly announced in February 2025 alongside the launch of human.tech and the rebranding of Gitcoin Passport as Human Passport. The broader ecosystem also includes Human Network, formerly Mishti Network, an Actively Validated Service using Ethereum restaking through EigenLayer and Symbiotic for key management and private identity proofs. A forthcoming coordination token, $HUMN, is planned for Human Network utility, identity staking, DAO governance, and private-payment infrastructure, though it had not launched as of early 2026.
S El Damaty posts across 3,739 entries on the intersection of neuroscience, crypto, and philosophy. He has been mentioned by 26 accounts, with 95 total mentions.
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