Steven Goldfeder is a cryptography researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Offchain Labs, the team behind the Arbitrum Layer 2 scaling protocol. Steven Goldfeder's Twitter Score is 395 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #580 (top 0.5%) among 497,421 tracked accounts.
Steven Goldfeder co-founded Offchain Labs and serves as its CEO. Offchain Labs was founded in 2018 and has raised $124M in capital from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Polychain Capital, Ribbit Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Pantera Capital, and Blockchain.com. Previously, Steven Goldfeder worked as a postdoc at Cornell Tech and at The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts.
Steven Goldfeder co-authored the paper Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges, published in 2019, which became a foundational reference in the study of maximal extractable value. On the protocol side, Offchain Labs deployed the Nitro upgrade for Arbitrum in 2022, delivering a 10x increase in throughput and significantly lower transaction fees. In 2023, the ARB token and Arbitrum DAO launched, transitioning the network to a community-governed ecosystem.
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