Through strategic integrations and sidechain expansions, Balancer’s tech helps mitigate ETH transaction fees Though declining, Ethereum transaction fees still add up to eye-popping amounts over time. Throughout most of 2021, the average cost of a transaction ranged from $20–40 and peaked at a whopping $196 on May 1, 2022, amid NFT hype. You may not … Read more
To the DeFi community, This week Binance’s venture capital arm, Binance Labs, raised $500 million for a new web3 investment fund – its first using outside investment. DST Global Partners and Breyer Capital backed the fund, along with a number of private equity funds, family offices, and corporations. The fund is looking to support projects … Read more
The veModel is the holy grail of tokenomics, aligning user incentives and focusing on long-term Protocol performance. Liquidity mining brought rise to DeFi Summer and revolutionized how projects incentivize participation and governance. The distribution of governance tokens to users changed how we look at financial infrastructure. Traditional liquidity mining has been criticized as encouraging mercenary … Read more
Occasionally, enterprises arise together that complement each other in astounding ways. Through Olympus’ collaboration with Balancer, we have realized one of those distinct alignments. Balancer, with it’s novel and limitlessly custom liquidity pools, along with LBP (Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool) front-ends facilitated by both Copper and PrimeDAO; will create a harmonious symbiosis within the Olympus ecosystem … Read more
Balancer x Lido for Polygon by ShardLabs.io Shard Labs is excited to announce the creation of a Polygon solution which allows users to enter Lido’s liquid staking without spending significant amounts of capital for transactions on Ethereum mainnet. To make this happen, an integration with Balancer Protocol was an essential milestone. The first phase was … Read more
mStable has completed a DAO-to-DAO treasury swap with Balancer DAO, following the launch of the Emissions Controller last week and the successful resolution of TDP 29. The token swap of 20,000 BAL and 334,000 MTA occurred on-chain, totaling ~US$290K in current market value. Balancer DAO will stake the MTA and vote for its pools with the Emissions … Read more
To the DeFi community, This week, Balancer announced a new integration with Aave, allowing unused liquidity from trading pools to be locked in Aave to earn additional Yield. Boosted pools will increase capital efficiency, and connections to other lending protocols will be rolled out over time to LPs additional options. Aave Boosted Pools deposits @BalancerLabs … Read more
Copper commits to further build on top of Balancer Protocol’s underlying codebase. We are thrilled to announce that Balancer Labs is further aligning with Copper, paving the way for future revenue generation for both ecosystems. Copper has committed to continue innovating on top of Balancer Protocol’s Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools (LBPs) and underlying codebase. On the … Read more
The BAL Grant Program is one of the ways that BalancerDAO promotes the development of the Balancer Protocol and Ecosystem. The Grant Wave Program was established in August 2021 after a community discussion, which can be found on Balancer’s governance forum here and the snapshot vote here. The current Wave 2 will run until 31 … Read more
Agreement and Token Swap aims to align the interests of Balancer and FEI and accelerate the collaboration between the DAOs. On November 12th 2021, Balancer DAO and Fei DAO further aligned their interest through a DAO agreement and a substantial Token Swap totaling over $9,000,000 at current market value. The vision for Fei Protocol is to be … Read more