Olaoluwa Osuntokun is a computer scientist and co-founder who built core infrastructure for the Lightning Labs protocol stack. Olaoluwa Osuntokun's Twitter Score is 228 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #2,042 (top 1%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Olaoluwa Osuntokun co-founded Lightning Labs and serves as its CTO, focusing on Bitcoin scaling, applied cryptography, and distributed systems. His technical background spans computer science at the graduate and undergraduate level, and his work centers on the Lightning Network as a second-layer payment protocol for Bitcoin. Lightning Labs raised a $70 million Series B round for Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure work, with investors including Valor Equity Partners, Baillie Gifford, Goldcrest Capital, Brevan Howard, and NYDIG, per reporting from 2022.
Olaoluwa Osuntokun has accumulated 41,949 followers as of July 2026 on the platform and has published 7,844 posts, with a primary focus on Bitcoin protocol development and Go-based systems engineering. Olaoluwa Osuntokun has been mentioned by 319 accounts, with 839 total mentions.
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