Who Stephen Buttolph is
Stephen Buttolph is Chief Protocol Architect at Ava Labs (/tags/ava-labs), the company that builds Avalanche (/tags/avalanche).
Who is Stephen Buttolph
Buttolph was one of Ava Labs' first employees and has been central to building out Avalanche's core protocol software from early in the network's history.
Notable Work
He has led much of the implementation of AvalancheGo, the Go-language reference client that node operators run to participate in Avalanche's Primary Network, and has authored and reviewed a large share of its public releases. He regularly presents on AvalancheGo's development and on Avalanche consensus at community and technical events.
Social Presence
Buttolph is active on X as stephenbuttolph, where he discusses AvalancheGo releases and protocol-level Avalanche development, and maintains a public GitHub profile documenting his contributions to the client.
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The record
Every dated thing we know · Aug 2026
