glebshumakov·12 hours agoBAL’s Inflation Schedule UpdateBAL token is about to undergo the first installment of its emissions drop — BAL token is about to undergo the first-ever emissions drop. What does this mean for the Balancer Protocol ecosystem’s future? BAL’s original emissions schedule, unveiled along with the token itself in June 2020, proposed a cap of 100M BAL that would be observed through governance votes. Balancer Labs described the…Tokenomics3 min readTokenomics3 min read
0xSkly·1 day agoInside Balancer Contracts — A composable symphony (1)It has been a while since the last article about balancer tech, but now we’re back in full force! And to celebrate it, we’re going to tackle a masterpiece of DeFi innovation in a mammoth series of god knows how many articles. I’m talking about the mind bending, brain melting…Balancer Pool6 min readBalancer Pool6 min read
Orb·Mar 20Balancer has reached Gnosis ChainWe are excited to announce Balancer has arrived on Gnosis Chain. karpatkey and Balancer are working together on bringing Balancer’s innovation to an original Ethereum sidechain with untapped potential. Backed by Gnosis DAO, a large LP on Balancer and significant holder of BAL & AURA, this expansion to Gnosis cements…Defi3 min readDefi3 min read
Orb·Mar 16Introducing Balancer’s 80/20BPT LaunchpadDiving into [BIP-146] and incentivizing 8020 BPT Staking (ve8020) — One of the main differences between Balancer’s veTokenomics and the initial model proposed by Curve is that in the Balancer model, BAL/WETH 80/20 BPT is locked instead of only BAL. Locking BAL itself would take the token out of circulation while locking the BPT of an 80/20 pool does the…Balancer Protocol3 min readBalancer Protocol3 min read
Orb·Feb 16The Great Migration FAQLiquidity Providers can find answers to Balancer’s Pool Migration here — Why am I Migrating Funds? Background Late last year the ChainSecurity team reported a vulnerability via Immunefi involving read-only reentrancy that might render getRate() and related functions manipulable, and thus unsafe to use in many contexts. …Balancer Protocol4 min readBalancer Protocol4 min read
Orb·Feb 16Balancer Launches DeFi’s Next Building Block with Generalized Boosted PoolsGeneralized Boosted Pools are now live for integrations — When it comes to Automated Market Makers (AMMs), only a small percentage of liquidity deposited into a liquidity pool is actually used to facilitate trades. Most of the time, the daily volume of trade activity is much smaller than the net sum of the pool’s total available liquidity. …Balancer Pool7 min readBalancer Pool7 min read
Balancer Labs·Feb 13Logic Error Bug Fix ReviewHigh severity bug discovered by white hat hacker through bounty platform Immunefi — Summary On January 22, 2023, white hat hacker 0xriptide reported a high-severity vulnerability and we subsequently made the bug public through this Twitter thread. The bug would allow liquidity providers to submit duplicate claims to drain all of the Merkle Orchard’s assets from the Vault. At the time of the report…Balancer Protocol7 min readBalancer Protocol7 min read
Orb·Feb 7Balancer LBPs and the Akita Inu SagaBalancer LBPs: How to sell a token that does not have deep liquidity without negatively impacting its value. — In 2021, Vitalik Buterin received a large number of dog tokens. On May 12th, 2021, he sent 49 trillion Akita Inu tokens ($AKITA) he received to Gitcoin’s multisig wallet. Vitalik received numerous tokens in the past from founders of various meme coins, who aimed to promote their projects through him…Balancer Pool5 min readBalancer Pool5 min read
0xEvan·Jan 19Creating Liquidity Strategies With Balancer Managed Pool ControllersIntro Developing controllers on Balancer Managed Pools unlock a variety of novel DeFi applications to manage treasury risk, automate trading strategies, and automate liquidity management. Balancer Pools are multi-token Liquidity Pools offering a great deal of flexibility to manage on-chain liquidity. Managed Pools are a relatively new pool that have started…Balancer11 min readBalancer11 min read
Orb·Jan 4DeFi Tweets Ep2: Professional DAO Delegation w/ StablenodeParticipants: Doo Wan Nam — Co-founder, COO at StableNode Mike B — Balancer Maxi Bianca Buzea — Developer Relations at Balancer You can find the second episode below. Be sure to follow our Twitter for weekly Twitter spaces. Balancer — Balancer’s mission is to accelerate innovation in DeFi by…Evergreen1 min readEvergreen1 min read