Fernando Martinelli is a DeFi founder who co-founded Balancer Protocol, an automated market maker deployed on Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum. Fernando's Twitter Score is 202 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #2,304 (top 0.5%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Fernando co-founded Balancer Protocol and previously served as CEO of Balancer Labs. In March 2026, he announced that Balancer Labs is being wound down, with core team operations transitioning under governance. Prior to that, in November 2025, Balancer Protocol suffered an apparent exploit involving substantial asset movement from pool contracts. BAL is the governance token of the protocol.
Fernando has accumulated 13,296 followers as of October 2026 and has published 3,116 posts. He has been mentioned by 141 accounts a total of 294 times.
As an angel investor, Fernando has backed Zerion, Sonic, Lido, CoW Swap, DELV, XMTP, Coinshift and Gyroscope.
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The accounts that follow Fernando include 756 founders, 249 angel investors, 185 influencers and 10 VCs, among them ZachXBT, Laura Shin, Stani, Hayden Adams, Chris Burniske and Kyle Samani.