# EXCLUSIVE: Balancer 🤝 Aave Partnership Chat | Stani Kulechov, Fernando Martenelli, and Dan Elitzer

*Author: Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffman*
*Published: Feb 26, 2021*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/exclusive-balancer-aave-partnership*

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#### Guests:
**Stani Kulechov**, Founder & CEO of Aave 
**Fernando Martinelli**, Co-Founder & CEO of Balancer  
**Dan Elitzer**, Partner at [Nascent](https://www.nascent.xyz/)

Recently, Aave and Balancer announced a joint-product called the [Balancer V2 Asset Manager.](https://medium.com/balancer-protocol/balancer-partners-with-aave-to-build-the-first-v2-asset-manager-d9c173330151)

[Dan Elitzer](https://twitter.com/delitzer)  is guest-hosting and moderating the conversation between Stani and Fernando. Dan is so stoked about this partnership that he wanted to moderate this fireside chat!

Mentioned in the show: 
Dan’s foundation piece called *[Superfluid Collateral in DeFi](https://tokeneconomy.co/superfluid-collateral-in-open-finance-8c3db15efac)*

…and [Aquaponic Yield Farming](https://bankless.ghost.io/aquaponic-yield-farming/), which was basically the DeFi Summer roadmap.
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