Rolf V is a cryptocurrency infrastructure builder who co-founded Horizen and zkVerify, and works at the Horizen Foundation as Dev Growth Lead. Rolf V's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #38,952 (top 10%) among 482,922 tracked accounts.
Rolf V entered cryptocurrency through Bitcoin mining and later GPU mining before becoming involved with the privacy technology that underpins Horizen. He co-authored the original Zen white paper alongside Robert Viglione and Jane Lippencott, helping lay the conceptual foundation for the project. ZEN serves as the governance and utility token of the Horizen ecosystem, and in July 2025 Horizen completed the migration of ZEN balances to an ERC-20 contract on Base, with legacy chains designated for discontinuation.
Rolf V also co-founded zkVerify, a purpose-built Layer 1 designed to verify multiple zero-knowledge proof systems, constructed using Substrate. The network uses VFY as its token for economic security and proof verification. Among his hands-on work in the space, he built a zero-knowledge-powered lemonade-stand demonstration game that generates a proof confirming a player's score followed the rules. Before his career in crypto, Rolf V served as a US Navy nuclear submarine officer, and he also farms chestnut trees.
Rolf V has published 3,632 posts and has been mentioned by 27 accounts a total of 307 times.
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