Evan Van Ness @evanvanness
Evan Van Ness (@evanvanness) is one of the Ethereum ecosystem's longest-serving information curators, best known for Week in Ethereum News, the newsletter that for years served as the canonical digest of everything happening across Ethereum — protocol upgrades, layer-2 progress, DeFi developments, and ecosystem research. That curatorial role made him a trusted filter for developers, investors, and researchers who needed signal without wading through the firehose. He is also an active angel investor in the ecosystem. His roughly 130,000 followers get opinionated Ethereum-native commentary: takes on protocol politics, ecosystem priorities, and the periodic controversies that ripple through core-dev and staking circles. Few accounts compress as much Ethereum context into a feed.
Why follow
- Deep Ethereum institutional memory — context on why the ecosystem works the way it does.
- A curator's instinct for which technical developments actually matter beneath the noise.
- Candid takes on Ethereum governance and ecosystem debates that more diplomatic accounts avoid.
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This is a technically literate audience, so replies must earn their place: comment on the substance of a protocol change, add a data point about L2 adoption, or offer a grounded view in an ecosystem debate. Ethereum-culture fluency helps; generic crypto talk marks you as an outsider. Run NoobClaw at low frequency — several replies per week rather than per day — concentrated on his news-commentary posts. Depth of individual comments matters far more than cadence with this crowd, and sloppy takes get corrected publicly.
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