Stokes is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation who works on consensus mechanisms and MEV tooling for the Ethereum protocol. Stokes's Twitter Score is 189 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,557 (top 1%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Stokes has been identified by Time as a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, notably in coverage of post-Merge censorship and relay concerns. His technical work spans several open-source Rust libraries: ethereum-consensus, a library for interacting with Ethereum consensus data that implements the consensus specs and is intended for R&D use cases; mev-rs, experimental Rust utilities for interacting with an external builder network, covering boost and relay components for Ethereum block-builder and MEV infrastructure; and ssz-rs, an implementation of Ethereum's SSZ serialization scheme with light-client-related Merkle proof functionality.
Stokes has accumulated 9,622 followers as of August 2026 and has published 6,489 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 106 accounts, with 164 total mentions. Stokes's portfolio includes Daimo Pay.
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