Simon Brown is a blockchain researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Shodai Network and leads product at CNS Labs Inc. Simon Brown's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #38,858 (top 10%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Simon Brown co-founded Shodai Network, which raised $2.5 million from Consensys Software Inc., Consensys Mesh, and Joe Lubin. He signed the Shodai trademark application as Chief Executive Officer of CNS Labs Inc., a group focused on economic incentives for building on Linea. Previously, he worked at Consensys as a blockchain ecosystem advisor, where he drove Verax, an attestation registry on Linea, and was formerly a member of the research review committee at PBS Foundation.
Simon Brown authored EIP-5902, a proposal for Smart Contract Event Hooks on Ethereum, created in November 2022 and currently listed as Stagnant. He collaborated with MigaLabs on research into decentralization and correlation patterns in Ethereum's staking validator network, with his research time covered by Consensys. He also co-authored "The Signals Framework: A Semiotic Model for Emergent Participation in Decentralized Networks" with Michael Norman in June 2025. His contributions to trusted setup ceremonies include the Privacy Pools Ceremony MPC Phase 2 in February 2025 and the ZKOPRU multi-party ceremony in March 2021.
Simon Brown has published 1,241 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 17 accounts across 38 total mentions.
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