Participants: 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…

We are proud to introduce Holdr, the next-generation AMM built on Balancer, pushing the capabilities of the Balancer’s technology to its full extent. Ultimately Holdr provides LPs an opportunity to mitigate impermanent loss, collect more fees, and take advantage of self-balancing portfolios similar to traditional index funds. …

We are excited to announce that after the soft launch on November 25, 2022, the Tranchess liquidity pool on Balancer is now live as the primary source of liquidity for the Tranchess ETH liquid staking fund. Tranchess’ qETH/ETH pool has recently been whitelisted and will soon join auraBAL bribing on…

The following Balancer Relay and Pool Migrations post is brought to you by Balancer’s SDK team lead, John Grant. What Is a Relayer? A relayer is a contract that is authorized by the protocol and users to make calls to the Vault on behalf of the users. It can use the sender’s ERC20 vault…

LBP (Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools) are pools consisting of 2–4 tokens that can dynamically change the token weightings over time (e.g 1/99 to 99/1 for TokenA/TokenB). The programmatic adjusting of weights over time facilitates the lowering of the price slowly. …

What are Boosted Pools? To understand Boosted Pools, we need to make an initial stop and review Linear Pools. Linear Pools facilitate trades between two tokens at a known exchange rate. A positive/negative fee mechanism is used to incentivize arbitrageurs to maintain a desired ratio between two tokens. With Boosted Pools, both Liquidity Providers…

When attempting to swap tokens intermediate swaps are often necessary. This occurs when there is no pool containing both tokens or a cheaper route is available. These swaps usually require multiple function calls. Balancer provides a gas efficient solution, batch swaps. How Does it Work? Batch swaps are a single function call to Balancer’s…

Balancer Flash Loans TL;DR: V2 architecture gives access to combined liquidity from all Balancer Pools Borrow several different tokens in one transaction Pay zero fees Imagine you had $1000 in ETH deposited into Compound with $200 USDC borrowed. To withdraw all your ETH, you need USDC. With flash loans, you can borrow $200 USDC…

To minimize risk and prevent unauthorized use of smart contracts, it is important to understand smart contract security and how it works in daily development. — The following article provides general security advice and does not reflect the complete security practices of any particular team. It is important to note that no short overview can provide an exhaustive discussion of all aspects of smart contract security.