Ernesto Boado is a DeFi developer and co-founder of BGD Labs who previously served as CTO at Aave. Ernesto's Twitter Score is 78 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #10,257 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Ernesto co-founded BGD Labs, an independent Web3 and DeFi development group established in early 2022, which went on to become a significant technical contributor and service provider to the Aave DAO. Before that, he was part of the Aave Genesis Team from its earliest days, contributing to the design, architecture, and implementation of foundational work across the Aave ecosystem, and later served as CTO at Aave.
Ernesto's work at BGD Labs spanned Aave proposals and core infrastructure, including Aave Governance V3, oracle optimization, Safety Module migrations, and cross-chain governance. The team also developed a. DI, a cross-chain governance decision-forwarding infrastructure that was adopted beyond Aave, including within the Lido DAO ecosystem, where Boado also serves as a governance delegate. BGD Labs announced that its Aave DAO services engagement would conclude on April 1, 2026 and would not be renewed, and on that date the team confirmed it was no longer under any official engagement with the Aave DAO, having migrated user-facing tooling repositories to the Aave DAO GitHub organization.
Ernesto's account has published 398 posts and has 4,157 followers as of October 2026. Ernesto has been mentioned by 29 accounts, with 45 total mentions.
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