Contango is a DeFi looping and leveraged-trading protocol that automates on-chain leveraged positions using flash loans, spot markets, and money markets. Contango's Twitter Score is 81 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #9,651 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Contango was co-founded by Kamel Aouane, Bruno Bonanno, and Egill Hreinsson. The protocol announced a $4M seed round at a $45M valuation, led by ParaFi, with additional backing from Coinbase Ventures, Spartan Group, AngelDAO, Cumberland, GSR, Amber Group, CMS, dlab, Advanced Blockchain AG, and AlphaDAO. Per its own documentation, private raises totaled $4.62M across multiple rounds, alongside a $3M public sale conducted via Fjord.
Contango launched its utility token TANGO through Fjord on October 21, 2024, with a total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. The protocol has run incentive programs in collaboration with Arbitrum, Optimism, Compound, EtherFi, and KelpDAO. Contango has published 3,609 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 159 accounts a total of 514 times.
Contango's portfolio includes Arcade, SYMMIO, Vybe, Assisterr and Hivello Official.
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The accounts that follow Contango include 247 founders, 87 angel investors, 183 influencers and 11 VCs. Among its notable followers are Stani, Tarun Chitra, Larry Cermak, Intern, John Wang and Mario Nawfal.