1994-. Russian-Canadian programmer and writer.
Co-founded Ethereum (2015), the first programmable blockchain with Turing-complete smart contracts.
Enabled decentralized applications, DeFi, DAOs, and on-chain governance as composable primitives.
Authored the Ethereum whitepaper, defining a world computer for trustless computation.
Drove the transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, reducing energy cost by ~99.95%.
His work on account abstraction, rollups, and data availability scaling shapes the infrastructure cyber and bostrom build upon.
Advocates for public goods funding, quadratic voting, and mechanism design in decentralized systems.