Pter Szilgyi is a cryptography-focused software engineer who founded Dark Bio after a decade leading the Ethereum Go client. Pter Szilgyi's Twitter Score is 418 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #553 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Pter Szilgyi previously worked at Ethereum as the lead of Go Ethereum, the canonical Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol, a role he held from 2015 through 2025. He has since founded Dark Bio, which describes itself as "Making genomics cypherpunk" and focuses on bringing privacy-preserving cryptographic techniques to genomics. Dark Bio's public work includes post-quantum cryptography libraries written in Rust, Go, Flutter, and TypeScript, as well as cryptographic transparency reports.
Pter Szilgyi posts actively on the platform, with 12,272 posts to date, and has been mentioned by 329 accounts across 791 mentions, reflecting sustained recognition within the Ethereum developer and cryptography communities.
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The accounts that follow Pter Szilgyi include 1,535 founders, 401 angel investors, 669 influencers and 32 VCs, among them Balaji, vitalik.eth, Laura Shin, Toly, Chris Dixon and jesse.base.eth.