Armani Ferrante (@armaniferrante) — Twitter Score 534 out of 1000

Armani Ferrante is the co-founder and CEO of Backpack, a crypto exchange, and the founder of Mad Lads and Anchor. Armani Ferrante's Twitter Score is 534 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, placing Armani Ferrante at rank #273 (top 0.1%) out of 483,944 accounts tracked on this platform, with 165,668 followers as of August 2026 and 41,342 posts.

Armani Ferrante co-founded Backpack with Can Sun, both former employees of FTX and Alameda Research. Backpack raised $17 million in a Series A round led by Placeholder VC, with Hashed, Robot Ventures, Amber Group, Wintermute, and Selini also participating. The exchange acquired FTX EU for approximately 30 million euros, a transaction approved by the FTX bankruptcy court and the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission. Backpack began reimbursing former FTX EU customers, with approximately 100,000 affected European savers expected to receive more than 50 million euros. Backpack reportedly lost 90% of its treasury in the FTX collapse, and has been developing an automatically updated proof-of-reserves system intended to cryptographically demonstrate funds available for withdrawal.

Armani Ferrante also founded Anchor, the most popular framework for Solana programs and smart contracts, and previously worked at Alameda Research as a software engineer. Armani Ferrante has been mentioned by 559 accounts, with 1,387 total mentions. Armani Ferrante's tracked portfolio includes Jito.

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Armani Ferrante draws a following from across the crypto ecosystem. The accounts that follow Armani Ferrante include 1,839 founders, 442 angel investors, 980 influencers and 21 VCs, among them Solana, Toly, Chris Dixon, ZachXBT, Ansem and Marc Andreessen.