Lucas (@variational_lvs) — Twitter Score 63 out of 1000

Lucas is a fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Variational, an on-chain derivatives protocol currently in private beta on its Omni mainnet. Lucas's Twitter Score is 63 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #13,525 (top 5%) among 481,722 tracked accounts.

Lucas co-founded Variational alongside Edward Yu, with the project having started operations in early 2022 after closing its initial funding in late 2021. Before building Variational, the protocol initially ran in stealth as a proprietary market maker before pivoting to develop its own DeFi protocol. Lucas previously worked at Genesis Trading as VP of Engineering. Earlier, Lucas and Edward Yu co-founded Qu Capital in 2017, which was subsequently acquired by Digital Currency Group in 2019.

Lucas announced a $10.3 million seed round for Variational in October 2024. The protocol is built with an affiliation to Arbitrum, and a native $VAR token is planned but not yet live, with utility designed around using protocol revenue to purchase and burn tokens. Lucas has accumulated 5,029 followers as of August 2026 across 573 posts on the platform. Lucas has been mentioned by 41 accounts, with 94 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow Lucas include 159 founders, 38 angel investors, 131 influencers and 5 VCs. Among them are Haseeb, John Wang, Mario Nawfal, Arbitrum, Tom Schmidt and DeFi Dad defidad.eth.