Tagged: balancer labs

March 30, 2026 @ 2:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer Labs, the corporate entity behind of one of decentralized finance’s longest-running automated market makers, is winding down operations. Co-founder Fernando Martinelli announced the decision in a governance forum post on March 24, 2026, roughly five months after a devastating exploit in November 2025 drained… Read More

December 16, 2021 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer Labs has announced the launch of Boosted Pools. Boosted Pools aim to “solve for decreased capital efficiency with yields on tokens deposited into Automated Market Maker Pools.” The first iteration of this product will be with Balancer’s “close collaborator, lending protocol Aave.” Fernando Martinelli,… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 12:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Fernando Martinelli, the Co-founder and CEO at Balancer Labs, which supports the ongoing development of Balancer, an automated portfolio manager and digital asset liquidity provider. As covered in May 2021, Balancer Version 2.0, the “most flexible” and efficient automated market maker… Read More

July 2, 2021 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer has joined Polygon’s summer of DeFi with $10 million in joint token incentives. Balancer Protocol has introduced support on the Layer 2 solution Polygon in order to lower gas costs. Polygon (MATIC) has experienced steady user adoption in 2021 with major decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

May 12, 2021 @ 11:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer Version 2.0, the “most flexible” and efficient automated market maker (AMM) is now live. Balancer Labs, which aims to become the “primary source” of DeFi liquidity by offering the “most flexible” and simple platform for asset management, has announced many new updates. As previously… Read More

May 2, 2021 @ 8:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer Labs has teamed up with the TokenEngineering (TE) Academy in order to launch Balancer Simulations for open “crypto-economic” research. As noted in an update dated April 29, 2021: “With the launch of Balancer V2, Balancer Labs brings programmable liquidity to a new level by… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Balancer, a “decentralized” digital asset manager and protocol, has reportedly made changes to its codebase, in order to limit or prevent large players from taking advantage of the platform to mine Blancer’s BAL governance tokens, instead of using them for crypto-asset trading…. Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer Labs, a non-custodial asset manager, has secured $3 million in funding through a seed round led by Accomplice and Placeholder. Established in 2018, Balancer began operating as an initiative under BlockScience, a data analytics company. The project has been inspired by the development of… Read More