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 194 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #2,635 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 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 13,378 followers as of July 2026 and has published 2,678 posts. He has been mentioned by 140 accounts a total of 293 times.
As an angel investor, Fernando has backed Zerion, Sonic, Lido, CoW DAO, DELV, XMTP, Coinshift and Gyroscope.
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The accounts that follow Fernando include 769 founders, 234 angel investors, 242 influencers and 12 VCs, among them ZachXBT, Laura Shin, Stani, Hayden Adams, Chris Burniske and Kyle Samani.