Gavin Wood is an English computer scientist and a co-founder of Ethereum, who later created Polkadot and Kusama. He proposed and helped develop Solidity, the programming language for writing smart contracts, and in 2014 he published the paper defining the Ethereum Virtual Machine, the runtime system for those contracts. He served as the Ethereum Foundation first chief technology officer, left it in January 2016, and founded Parity Technologies. He is credited with coining the phrase Web 3.0 in 2014.
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