Ye Zhang is a cryptography researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Scroll, an Ethereum zkEVM Layer 2 scaling solution. Ye Zhang's Twitter Score is 158 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #3,445 (top 1%) among 497,973 tracked accounts.
Ye Zhang co-founded Scroll alongside Sandy Peng, building one of the more technically rigorous zkEVM rollups in the Ethereum ecosystem. Scroll raised more than $80 million across multiple rounds, including a $50 million Series B at a $1.8 billion valuation in 2023, backed by top-tier venture capital firms. The project launched its $SCR token in October 2024 with a total supply of one billion tokens, and has saved users more than $100 million in fees since launch. Scroll also reached Stage 1 as the first zk-Rollup to do so via its Euclid upgrade.
Ye Zhang's research spans zero-knowledge proofs, cryptographic protocols including zkEVM, Ceno, and AuditableMPC, as well as hardware acceleration work such as PipeZK and GZKP. Earlier in his career, he previously worked at Conflux as a research and development intern. Ye Zhang's account has 15,632 followers as of October 2026 and 1,666 posts, and has been active since 2018. He has been mentioned by 81 accounts a total of 116 times.
As an angel investor, Ye Zhang has backed Succinct, Axiom, Vessel and Daimo Pay.
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The accounts that follow Ye Zhang include 613 founders, 213 angel investors, 150 influencers and 14 VCs. Among his notable followers are Toly, Marc Andreessen, Chris Burniske, Kyle Samani, Mert and Joseph Lubin.