Balancer Protocol

It is common for modern services to extend beyond physical machines. That means that service requires better characteristics than it is possible under physical limitations of a concrete machine. Scaling back-ends horizontally is one way to improve the performance and reliability of a service in comparison to its single instance…

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…

The team at Balancer Grants SP is proud to be supporting Xave Finance with a grant to integrate BB-a-USD in the place of USDC in their custom FX pools built on Balancer. This furthers the adoption of our highly successful Aave Boosted stable pool. As part of a previous Balancer…

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…

The BAL Grant Program is one of the ways that BalancerDAO promotes the development of the Balancer Protocol and Ecosystem. The Grants Service Provider proposal posted in the Balancer forum was approved through the successful snapshot vote by veBAL holders, funding this quarter of grants. The current wave will run…

Are you new to DeFi or perhaps you are a seasoned DeFi degen? In any case, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the phrase “impermanent loss,” also known as “IL.” As someone that’s new to DeFi, we tend to shy away from liquidity pools that contain volatile assets for e.g a liquidity…

Generalized 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. That deep…

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…

High 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…