Gavin Wood

Gavin Wood is one of the most consequential technologists almost nobody outside crypto can name. A computer scientist from Lancaster and York, he co-founded Ethereum, created Polkadot and Kusama, and coined the term Web 3.0 in 2014, a phrase now repeated by people who have no idea who minted it. That is genuine intellectual influence: not just shipping software, but naming and shaping a whole vision of how value and the internet might work. Whatever you think of the crypto world, Wood belongs to the rare class of builders who try to redraw the map. I am drawn to quiet architects of the future like him.

Name (English)

Gavin Wood

Name (Japanese)

ギャビン・ウッド

Reading

ぎゃびん・うっど

Born

April 22, 1980 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Occupation

computer scientist / researcher / software developer

University

University of York

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin%20Wood
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43379767

Tags

• computer scientist
• researcher
• software developer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.