Welcome to round 2 in our fight to understand the infamous swap join. In the previous article, we made it as far as _beforeJoinExit until we had to bail out. But after a bit of rest, we’re back in full force! Let’s keep up our momentum and skip the rumbling…

I gotta admit, the first article of this series was maybe not the most action packed. We cruised through some parent contracts without going into much detail, looked at some interfaces and read some comments. It might be a bit boring, but it gives us some context, and more importantly…

v3 Boosted Pools are now live for integrations — Balancer has launched new Boosted Pools bbaUSD and wstETH/bb-a-weth on Aave v3. Aave is a key partner, and we plan to make Aave v3 Boosted Pools an important building block on the network. As the transition to v3 progresses, Balancer Boosted Pools aim to increase capital efficiency for liquidity providers. …

Balancer Grants recipient Cron Finance launches on Mainnet, adding to the thriving ecosystem of diverse teams building on Balancer Protocol. — We’re excited to announce that Balancer Grantee Cron Finance, the team building out a Time-Weighted Average Market Maker (TWAMM) functionality using Balancer custom pools, has launched on Mainnet. The success of Balancer comes not only from the Balancer Community but from the projects building on top of it. Since its…

BAL 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…

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…

We 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…

Diving 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…

Liquidity 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. Upon further review, the Balancer Labs team realized there was in fact a possible exploit on the pools themselves: albeit…