Team doxx status
Balancer (v2 + v3)'s assessment for RD-F-111 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Fernando Martinelli (co-founder, CEO) is fully doxxed: real name, Portuguese/Brazilian engineer, Federal University of Santa Catarina BSc (2008), three MSc degrees (Scotland/France/Spain), Executive MBA Panthéon Sorbonne (2011), Honda Research Institute Europe and Bain & Company work history, IQ.wiki profile, LinkedIn, Medium, X since 2019. Mike McDonald (co-founder, CTO) has public GitHub (mikemcdonald), Crunchbase profile, security engineer background. All 11 DAO multisig signers are named representatives from established DeFi organizations (LayerZero, BGD, Paraswap, Gnosis, Snapshot, Karpatkey, Blockful/ENS, Raft, StakeDAO).
Sources #
- URL
- FernandoMartinelli — GitHubFernando Martinelli GitHub profile (FernandoMartinelli) — Balancer co-founderretrieved 2026-05-05
- Balancer Multisig Signers — docs.balancer.fiBalancer DAO multisig signers documentation — 11 named signers with organizational affiliationsretrieved 2026-05-05
- Fernando Martinelli — IQ.wikiFernando Martinelli IQ.wiki public profile with full CV and doxxed backgroundretrieved 2026-05-05
Methodology #
Classify each named team member as: real-name / consistent-pseudonym-with-track-record / pseudonym-no-track-record / fully-anonymous.
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