Gavin Wood
Ethereum co-founder who wrote its technical specification, created Solidity and later founded Polkadot.
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Ethereum co-founder who wrote its technical specification, created Solidity and later founded Polkadot.
Gavin Wood is a British computer scientist and one of Ethereum's co-founders. He served as its first chief technology officer, wrote the formal technical specification of how Ethereum works, and designed Solidity, the main language for its smart contracts.
He later founded Polkadot, a network built to connect many blockchains, and he's credited with popularising the term Web3 for an internet where users own their data and assets.
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