Matthew Di Ferrante is a software engineer and cryptography researcher who founded ZK Labs, an Ethereum smart contract auditing and cryptography R&D firm. Matthew Di Ferrante's Twitter Score is 90 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #8,345 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Matthew Di Ferrante founded ZK Labs, formally Zero Knowledge Labs GmbH, which carried out smart contract audits for a range of prominent blockchain projects, including work for the Interchain Foundation, crowdsale contracts for Parity, and clients such as AdEx, Zilliqa, Enjin, Melonport, and SingularityNET. The firm also received an Aragon Nest grant for research into scalable and private voting through bilinear pairings. ZK Labs has been largely inactive since late 2018. Matthew Di Ferrante previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation in a security capacity.
Matthew Di Ferrante currently works at Prime Intellect, where he has co-authored research including TOPLOC, a locality-sensitive hashing scheme for trustless verifiable LLM inference, and INTELLECT-2, a globally decentralized reinforcement learning training run for a 32-billion-parameter reasoning model. Matthew Di Ferrante has published 1,983 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 56 accounts, with 98 total mentions.
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