Nick Johnson
Bio
- From Cointelegraph (3-2023):
"Nick Johnson started his engineering career in 2001 in New Zealand. He later took a job at Google, where he worked for over seven years across two stints with the firm. In 2016, Johnson was poached for a role with Ethereum. He holds a BSc in computer science from the University of Canterbury.
Johnson has made an impact in the Web3 domain as the founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service, which enables decentralized naming for wallets and addresses in the Web3 ecosystem.
Johnson led the creation of Thorin, a React Javascript-based design system for ENS with an improved user experience, speed optimization, and mobile-friendliness. Thorin is still in alpha and offers standards for developers building user experiences on ENS. Furthermore, Johnson and ENS collaborated with Chainlink on its open-source Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) standard for cross-chain communication. CCIP aims to be the universal connection between blockchain networks and will help unlock isolated tokens.
Johnson will also work on scaling ENS with EIP-3668 and EIP-5559 this year. These standards provide a way by which off-chain lookups can be defined within smart contracts and should help achieve storage and transaction cost efficiencies on the Ethereum blockchain."
- Has links with the Ethereum Foundation since he was one of the signatories on a leaked Ethereum Foundation document about maintaining cohesion ahead of its (at the time pending) Constantinople, Create2 fork.
- Has been on a podcast with a AVA Labs member and has also debated (11-2019) their Athereum tps claims in an AMA.
Occupations
- Ethereum Name Service; founder and lead dev
