Christoph Jentzsch
Chief Executive Officer at Tokenize.it
Mittweida, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolChristoph Jentzsch is a technology entrepreneur and CEO with 11 years of experience building blockchain infrastructure and product teams, best known as a co-founder of Slock.it and an early contributor to Ethereum projects. With a background in theoretical and mathematical physics, he combines rigorous research instincts with practical engineering—contributing to core Ethereum clients (Aleth, go-ethereum) and DAO smart contract frameworks that influenced early decentralized governance. He has led technical strategy at Blockchains, LLC and now runs Tokenize.it and corpus.ventures, translating cryptoeconomic ideas into deployable products and services. His work spans low-level protocol testing, Solidity smart contracts, gas-optimization and QA automation, reflecting a rare mix of formal theory and hands-on blockchain engineering. An Ethereum Foundation alumnus, he repeatedly bridges academia, open source and startups to advance real-world uses of decentralized systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Diplom, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Technische Universität Dresden
English, German, Norwegian
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
solidity10
testing10
mathematics10
gas-optimization10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
javascript9
evm9
access-token9
tokend9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blockchainsllc/DAO
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
The Standard DAO Framework, including Whitepaper
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 532 commits, 242 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the development of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) framework. Their work involved modifying and updating smart contracts written in Solidity. The user's commits focused on implementing and adjusting core functionality such as token transfers, proposal execution, and the creation of a mechanism for splitting DAOs. They also introduced a multi-account structure, added a means to receive ether, and made adjustments to refund mechanics.
daowhitepapervotingthe-standardgovernance
ethereum/aleth
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Aleth – Ethereum C++ client, tools and libraries
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2284 commits, 155 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christoph made several commits focused on enhancing the Aleth project, an Ethereum C++ client. Their contributions centered around modifying blockchain test functionality by adding and modifying tests related to block header verification, uncle generation, and testing gas prices. They also fixed bugs related to code in EVM, improving code and also added a test for returning a transaction hash.
ethereumcppethereum-clientevm
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