Balancer (BAL)

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Balancer is a market maker protocol that allows its users to contribute liquidity to various assets and consequently earn a portion of the generated trading fees. Fees are collected from traders and portfolios are continually rebalanced through arbitrage opportunities. 

Founded in 2018 by Balancer Labs, the platform itself was officially launched in March 2020. It distinguishes itself from other automated market makers by considering various assets and weightage. The fees that can be earned from executed trades can be customized for each liquidity pool. Furthermore, it removes the middlemen that are portfolio managers - using traders’ fees and arbitrage opportunities to rebalance the portfolio instead. 

The project’s whitepaper, published in September 2019, offers a detailed explanation of the design of the liquidity and trading formulae that underpin the network’s economics. A succinct, high-level explanation of the network’s features can be summed up as follows: the protocol offers various types of liquidity pools with varying levels of permissions. Private pools are controlled by the pool creator, who may determine its parameters at will, while shared pools’ parameters are permanently fixed with the creator holding no special privileges. Smart pools are controlled by smart contracts and allows for a range of logical conditions and restrictions.

The project launched on the mainnet in late March 2020 alongside exchange and pool management dapps, among other launches. The BAL token itself was launched in June 2020, with 435,000 tokens set aside for distribution to liquidity providers, which will be handed out over the course of 3 weeks. The development team has stressed that the protocol is new and subject to change and development, both for refinement and security purposes. 

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Get Paid For Having Your Portfolio Rebalanced with the Balancer Protocol

11 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments 2sats

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3 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Kopi

Polygon - everyone's favourite low-fee layer, coupled that with a stablecoin yield of 17% and we got a winner. What's the difference of this Stable Pool from a regular liquidity pool? Maybe you've just learned to swap tokens, create a liquidity pair...

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24 Jul 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Seven-NATE-Nine

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18 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments 1punchgain

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11 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments 1punchgain

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11 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments GetBlock

GetBlock dives deeper into the features one of the most underrated DeFi projects so far, Balancer (BAL). Balancer Protocol by Balancer Labs perfectly reflects multiple aspects of what made 2020 DeFi Summer so crazy. Cross-chain approach, a plethora...

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4 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena

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