Banteg, whose first name is Artem, is a core contributor at Yearn Finance and the creator of several widely used Ethereum DeFi tools. Banteg's Twitter Score is 640 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #158 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform. He has 226,527 followers as of July 2026 on Twitter and has published 29,152 posts.
Banteg founded Disperse, an open-source protocol for distributing ETH or ERC-20 tokens to multiple addresses in a single on-chain transaction, deployed with no fees across Ethereum and multiple other networks. He also created multicall.py, a Python library aggregating multiple Ethereum smart contract reads into a single call with support for more than 200 EVM chains, and ape-safe, a Safe Wallet plugin for the Ape Framework that enables building and previewing complex multisig transactions on a forked chain before signing. Banteg also founded ape.tax and contributed to the ERC-4626 Vyper tokenized vault implementation alongside Yearn contributor fubuloubu, helping standardize yield-bearing vault interfaces on Ethereum. He co-authored Yearn governance proposal YIP-56 (Buyback and Build Yearn) and, in June 2026, publicly opposed the Ethereum Validator Redirected Revenue proposal, warning it would bring politics into the consensus layer and create incentives for validator cartels.
Banteg has been mentioned by 544 accounts, with 1,254 total mentions across the platform.
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