Balancer

Balancer's recent Arbitrum STIP (Stake to Incentivize Pools) initiative has been a significant success, with nearly double the total value locked (TVL), a substantial increase in daily average users, and significantly higher transaction volume throughput compared to previous periods. The protocol's core pool and incentive optimization algorithm allowed it to deepen liquidity in unique pool types that play a pivotal role on both the decentralized exchange (DEX) and the Arbitrum network. Balancer's innovative rate provider technology ensured that liquidity providers' yield would not be arbitraged away by diverging asset prices. The STIP rounds ended with the highest average TVL for an epoch of just under $168 million, with roughly 10% utilization for swap volume across all pools. Balancer has provided a Dune Analytics dashboard for transparency and deeper insights into the Arbitrum STIP stats. The DAO looks forward to future opportunities to work with the Arbitrum Foundation and the community to grow healthy, sustainable liquidity for the network.

Balancer, a decentralized exchange protocol, has introduced a new user interface update for its Yield Bearing Hub. The update now displays the points multiplier for each Liquid Restaking Protocol directly on the UI, providing users with more transparency and information regarding their staking rewards.

Balancer, in collaboration with Aave and Balancer, has launched Rehype E-CLPs, which are being promoted as the new most capital efficient Automated Market Makers (AMMs) in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Additionally, Balancer has introduced SPIN and Rehype pools, allowing users to earn points with GYD and provide liquidity in E-CLPs, while also enabling triple-dipping with yield.

SPIN pools allow users to earn points with GYD and LPing in E-CLPs. Rehype pools offer a capital-efficient AMM in DeFi, enabling users to triple dip with yield.

Xave has introduced FXPool, a custom Balancer liquidity pool that utilizes a novel FX invariant to enable stablecoin swaps without slippage. This represents a significant development in permissionless financial innovation built on Balancer technology.

Frax Finance has launched an E-CLP for FRAX/sFRAX liquidity on Arbitrum, offering BAL and ARB rewards. This new E-CLP leverages asymmetric concentrated liquidity to increase liquidity efficiency by over 100% compared to StableSwap pools.

Karpatkey, with approximately $1.6B in Assets Under Management (AUM), is a prominent player in decentralized asset management within DeFi. The platform emphasizes rigorous risk management and sustainable long-term strategies, covering areas such as portfolio accounting, reporting, and audits.

The Balancer community reports having over half a billion Liquid Staked Token liquidity. The community sees this as just the beginning of a larger trend. #BuildBetter

The $wstETH $ETH pool on Balancer has facilitated over $1.5 billion LST volume in 90 days with only $24m TVL. It reached a utilization rate of over 1000% on February 14th, regularly generating more 24-hour volume than the liquidity in the pool.

THX Protocol has joined the 80/20 Initiative on Balancer. $veTHX is now available on 0xPolygontech with 70% of fees auto-compounded and distributed to users when staking or completing quests. Learn more at the provided link. :sparkles: