Niran Babalola is a software engineer and blockchain developer who founded Panvala, a donor-driven funding platform for the Ethereum ecosystem, and currently works at Base and Coinbase. Niran Babalola's Twitter Score is 62 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #13,556 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Niran Babalola founded Panvala, which originally formed as a team within ConsenSys and was announced publicly in July 2018. The platform was built to channel donor funding toward work the Ethereum community depends on, including security and scalability efforts. Panvala launched its smart contracts on Ethereum mainnet during Berlin Blockchain Week in August 2019, operating with the ERC-20 PAN token on Ethereum.
Niran Babalola previously worked at ConsenSys, where he was involved in smart-contract security audits through ConsenSys Diligence and contributed to projects including Gnosis and Benefactory. He had also been an open-source contributor to Augur before joining ConsenSys, and contributed to the ERC-20 token standard. Today, Niran Babalola works as a Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase and as an engineer on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 incubated inside Coinbase and built on Optimism's OP Stack.
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