Team public accountability surface

Balancer (v2 + v3)'s assessment for RD-F-112 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Fernando Martinelli has verifiable trails across LinkedIn (employment history), IQ.wiki (academic CV), Medium, X, and has been cited by CoinDesk, The Block, DL News, and Unchained across 7+ years of public DeFi presence. Mike McDonald: GitHub contributions, Crunchbase, X. All 11 DAO multisig signers have documented organizational affiliations with public accountability surfaces via their respective protocols.

Sources #

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Mike McDonald — CrunchbaseMike McDonald Crunchbase profile — Co-founder and CTO Balancer Labsretrieved 2026-05-05
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Fernando Martinelli — XFernando Martinelli X profile (@fcmartinelli)retrieved 2026-05-05
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Balancer Labs to shut down — CoinDeskCoinDesk Balancer Labs wind-down citing Fernando Martinelli DAO post by nameretrieved 2026-05-05
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Fernando Martinelli — MediumFernando Martinelli Medium profile — Balancer-associated contentretrieved 2026-05-05

Methodology #

Count the number of verifiable public trails per team member (LinkedIn with employment history, conference talks, prior employer records, GitHub with aged contribution history).

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol balancer factor RD-F-112 score green collected_at 2026-05-05 12:41:36