Stake DAO confirmed that sdBAL holders can vote on Balancer governance as usual through its platform. The reminder points to the two live BIP proposals — BIP-928 and BIP-929 — which are open on Snapshot through September 28.
The BIP-928 wind-down proposal, from @Marcus_Balancer, is now live as a Snapshot vote running until Tuesday, September 29 at 6PM UTC. If it passes, pools move to withdrawals-only starting October 30, with some partner V3 pools staying live until November 30; from the end of May 2027, holders can burn BAL to redeem a pro rata share of the treasury, announced at least two weeks ahead.
BIP-929, from @maxyz_xyz, is live as a Snapshot Yes/No vote on launching an official fork of Balancer as a new protocol. Pools keep running with no pause before Q2 2027, leaving time to migrate, and liquidity, contributors, partners and IP could move to the fork.
Balancer stressed the two votes are independent — both can pass, both can fail, or one without the other. They conflict on only one point: BIP-928 moves pools to withdrawals-only starting October 30, while BIP-929 holds off any pause until later.
Overlayer is building three distinct liquidity products on Balancer V3, each tailored to a different curve. The suite includes Stable Boosted Pools for stablecoin pairs, AutoRange Pools for a governance token, and a multi-asset weighted pool for an index basket.
Balancer highlighted the work as an example of the flexibility its V3 infrastructure offers, letting protocols mix pool types to fit different liquidity jobs within a single protocol.
Balancer warned users of a bug in its legacy v1 contracts that allows draining LP funds. The affected pools are deprecated and non-pausable, so Balancer urged users to withdraw proportionally via a dedicated interface, stressing that other Balancer products, including currently supported versions, are not affected.
The team has since sent an on-chain message to known addresses involved in the V1 exploit, following best practices and offering a path for the hacker to contact them and return the funds. Balancer said it understands affected users await further updates and will continue to provide them.
Decentralized exchange partner Royco Protocol chose Balancer V3 as the first venue for its senior-tranche SLP pools, which use Gyroscope's E-CLP pool type. The pool sets its range per market and can hold up to 100% stables — a shape no default AMM offers, so it relies on custom pool types. Royco cited liquidity profile and security as reasons, noting Balancer V3 has been extensively audited, is monitored live, and is backed by a $1M bug bounty.
Balancer announced the first Fixed Price LBP is live, opening without any reserve capital. Some 15,000,000 tokens were seeded on Balancer V3 and a single flat rate was held for the full week. The pool is being run by @jackpotterCOM.
Balancer opened two governance votes, BIP-922 and BIP-923, on Snapshot, closing August 4th at 6PM UTC. BAL holders on any chain can vote on both proposals.
An attacker exploited a rounding error in Balancer v2's ComposableStablePool contracts, draining approximately $128 million across multiple blockchains in under two hours, despite prior audits.
Balancer released version 3 of its AMM platform, introducing new developer tools and a partnership with Aave for boosted pools.
Balancer unveiled the v3 codebase with a redesigned vault architecture focused on simplicity, flexibility, and scalability, ahead of final audits and deployment.
A week after Balancer disclosed a critical vulnerability affecting some v2 pools, an exploit drained approximately $2.1 million across multiple chains; some of the stolen funds were later returned or recovered.
Balancer released version 2.0 of its automated market maker, introducing a generalized AMM architecture built around a shared Protocol Vault to reduce gas costs and improve capital efficiency.
Balancer Labs announced a $5 million investment led by Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital, joining Pantera Capital and Alameda Research to bring the company's Series A round to $12 million.
An attacker used a flash loan from dYdX to drain Balancer pools containing the deflationary token Statera (STA), exploiting a mismatch between STA's burn mechanism and Balancer's price calculations.
Balancer began distributing its BAL governance token to liquidity providers on June 1, 2020, and the token was listed on mainnet on June 23, 2020.
Balancer Labs raised $3 million in a seed round led by Accomplice and Placeholder, with participation from CoinFund and Inflection.
Balancer deployed its V1 automated market maker on Ethereum mainnet in March 2020, following the publication of its whitepaper in September 2019.
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