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 430 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #483 (top 0.1%) among 483,944 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 12,304 posts to date, and has been mentioned by 333 accounts across 801 mentions, reflecting sustained recognition within the Ethereum developer and cryptography communities.
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The accounts that follow Pter Szilgyi include 1,787 founders, 454 angel investors, 467 influencers and 24 VCs, among them Balaji, vitalik.eth, Toly, Chris Dixon, jesse.base.eth and Ansem.