Balancer Hacker Now Converting Loot to Ethereum: Stolen Funds Surge To $116.6M

Balancer, a major DeFi protocol, has suffered a significant exploit, with approximately $116 million drained from protocol vaults. On-chain data shows large, unusual outflows from Balancer’s “0xBA1…BF2C8” address to an external wallet, including 6,587 WETH (~$24.

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Balancer Protocol launches on the Optimism network

Balancer Protocol seeks to reduce gas costs for both blockchain users and developers. Balancer… The post Balancer Protocol launches on the Optimism network appeared first on CoinJournal.

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OlympusDAO migrates liquidity to Balancer Protocol following a dramatic OHM whale dump

Decentralized financial reserve protocol OlympusDAO recently announced a collaboration with Balancer Protocol. The post OlympusDAO migrates liquidity to Balancer Protocol following a dramatic OHM whale dump appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Aave price movement: will the partnership with Balancer increase its value?

Aave AAVE/USD is an open-source as well as a non-custodial protocol that allows users to earn interest on deposits where they can borrow assets.   It is known due to the fact that it allows for Flash Loans, which are instantly issued and settled.

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Balancer Labs and AAVE launch Boosted Pools to resolve low capital efficiency

Balancer Labs announced the official launch of Boosted Pools, which aim to resolve low capital efficiency with token yields deposited into AMM pools, Invezz learned from a press release. Balancer’s close collaborator, lending protocol Aave (AAVE/USD), will be the first iteration of this groundbreaking product.

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DeFi Protocol Spool Announces Launch Date For Its Fair Launch Balancer LBP

Spool, a nascent DeFi protocol, has announced the date of its public sale of SPOOL tokens. This is the first public sale of the governance token of this platform. The sale of these tokens will be done through the Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping protocol.

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DeFi Protocol Balancer has integrated With the WallStreetBets cryptocurrency app, should you invest in BAL?

Balancer BAL/USD is a popular automated market maker (AMM). It was initially built on Ethereum, where it introduced a self-balancing weighted portfolio protocol.   This protocol essentially allowed anyone to create or add crypto liquidity to customizable pools, where they could, in-turn earn trading fees as a result.

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Balancer (BAL) Unveils MetaStable Pools, Partners with Lido (LDO) to Deepen ETH, stETH Liquidity

DeFi protocol Balancer (BAL) unveils MetaStable Pools, joins forces with Lido to deepen ether (ETH) and staked ether (stETH) liquidity. Balancer Launches MetaStable Pools Balancer, a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) platform recently announced its partnership with Ethereum staking solution Lido (LIDO) to launch MetaStable Pools with joint pool incentives.

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CowSwap, Gnosis Protocol integrates with Balancer vault architecture via smart contract

CowSwap upgrades to its first stable and audited version today after a tight integration with Balancer’s new vault architecture. The upgrade marks its transition from Alpha to its final version, Gnosis wrote on Medium.

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DeFi Protocol Balancer (BAL) Unveils Capital-Efficient Stable Pools

Leading DeFi protocol Balancer (BAL) has launched capital-efficient stable pools on Balancer V2. Balancer V2 Introduces Stable Pools In a bid to stand out in the competitive decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape, Balancer today announced the launch of stable pools which makes the protocol the first AMM with at least three different type of pools –Read More

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Balancer (BAL) Protocol Goes Live on Polygon (MATIC), Announces $10 Million Initiatives

Decentralized liquidity protocol Balancer (BAL) expands beyond Ethereum (ETH): its instruments go live on Polygon (MATIC)

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VCs back Balancer with $24.25M investment

Investors are backing the Balancer protocol with greater conviction. Could this be a sign that market hype surrounding DeFi is ramping up again?

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Raze Network launches its Liquidity Mining Program and Staking to incentivize users

Raze Network, the first Polkadot-based cross-chain privacy protocol, announced its public distribution sale on Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool to make Raze tokens accessible in a fair, linear and decentralized manner.

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Balancer Labs Launches V2 With Promises Lower Fees, Higher Yields, and Easy Interface

Balancer Labs, a DeFi protocol operating on the Ethereum blockchain, said in a press release that its long-awaited V2 is live. Balancer’s Governance Execution The project, which has been one year in development, will see the automated market maker (AMM) switch its governance execution to a community multi-sig.

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Gnosis, Balancer and PancakeSwap breakout as Bitcoin looks for direction

A series of protocol upgrades and partnership announcements helped to boost GNO, BAL and CAKE even as Bitcoin price searches for support.

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Balancer (BAL), Gnosis, Join Forces to Launch New DeFi Protocol 

Balancer (BAL) and Gnosis have come together to launch the Balancer-Gnosis-Protocol (BGP). The team says the new protocol combines the strengths of both protocols, offering users a capital-efficient decentralized exchange (DEX) that protects them from Miner Extractable Value (MEV) manipulation, according to a blog post on April 28, 2021.

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DeFi Protocol Balancer Rolls Out $2M (or 1000 ETH) Bug Bounty Program Ahead of V2 Launch Next Week

Following a tumultuous year for decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, many liquidity providers and automated market makers (AMMs) are looking for solutions to address the growing menace of cyberattacks.

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Balancer Labs Kicks Off Largest DeFi Bug Bounty Program

Balancer Labs, the foundation behind the Balancer Protocol, has offered the largest bug bounty prize on record in its attempts to root out vulnerabilities in its V2 Vault architecture. The foundation contributes to the Balancer protocol, which provides liquidity and offers users automated portfolio management.

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Tidal to Launch Balancer LBP After 500x Oversubscribed Polkastarter IDO

Tidal Finance, a high-yield insurance platform, offers the ability to hedge against the failure of a DeFi protocol or asset. While reinventing the way decentralized insurance works, Tidal Finance plans to attract participation from the community through a Balancer liquidity bootstrapping pool on 25th March.

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Tidal to Launch Balancer LBP Following 500x Oversubscribed Polkastarter IDO

PRESS RELEASE. Tidal Finance, a high-yield insurance platform, offers the ability to hedge against the failure of a DeFi protocol or asset. While reinventing the way decentralized insurance works, Tidal Finance plans to attract participation from the community through a Balancer liquidity bootstrapping pool on 25th March.

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Tidal to launch Balancer LBP following 500x oversubscribed Polkastarter IDO

Tidal Finance, a high-yield insurance platform, offers the ability to hedge against the failure of a DeFi protocol or asset. While reinventing the way decentralized insurance works, Tidal Finance planThe post Tidal to launch Balancer LBP following 500x oversubscribed Polkastarter IDO appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Tidal to Launch Balancer LBP following 500x oversubscribed Polkastarter IDO

Tidal Finance, a high-yield insurance platform, offers the ability to hedge against the failure of a DeFi protocol or asset. While reinventing the way decentralized insurance works, Tidal Finance plans to attract participation from the community through a Balancer liquidity bootstrapping pool on 25th March.

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Balancer (BAL) hits an all-time high as DeFi projects trial new solutions

Protocol integrations, gas fee reimbursements and a bump in DeFi activity back Balancer’s rally to a new all-time high.

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Aave Releases AMM Liquidity Pool, Uniswap and Balancer LPs Can Use their LP Tokens as Collateral in Protocol

Popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application, Aave Protocol, which allows users to unlock liquidity across various assets, has launched a new AMM Liquidity Pool. This latest launch will enable the liquidity providers of popular DEXs Uniswap and Balancer to use their LP tokens as collateral in the Aave.

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Aave Protocol (AAVE) Releases Unique AMM Liquidity Pool, Uniswap (UNI) and Balancer (BAL) Tokens Onboard

Leading decentralized financial ecosystem Aave Protocol (AAVE) has integrated its first external liquidity pool tokens, from Uniswap and Balancer

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Moonbeam to bring Balancer (BAL) protocol to the Polkadot (DOT) ecosystem

Work on interoperability of different crypto projects continues to see progress, as Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain, Moonbeam, recently revealed that it can connect Balancer (BAL) and Polkadot (DOT).

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Coinbase открыла резидентам Нью-Йорка доступ к DeFi-токенам

Криптовалютная биржа Coinbase разрешила резидентам штата Нью-Йорк осуществлять операции с рядом DeFi-токенов, в том числе Aave, Uniswap и yEarn. Finance. Aave (AAVE), Balancer (BAL), Band Protocol (BAND), Bancor (BNT), Compound (COMP), The Graph (GRT), Loopring (LRC), Maker (MKR), Ren (REN), Synthetix (SNX), Uniswap (UNI), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) & https://t.

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Balancer Partners with Aave

Following their recent announcement of the upcoming V2 upgrade, Balancer Protocol is also partnering with Aave to release a hybrid […] The post Balancer Partners with Aave appeared first on DeFi Rate.

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DEX Balancer Raises $5 Million Ahead of its V2 Launch Next Month

DeFi protocol, Balancer, has secured an investment of $5 million from Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital, both of which will be key strategic partners in its expansion in Asia. The popular DEX also has Pantera Capital and Alameda Research as its investors, which directly purchased BAL tokens from the Balancer Labs treasury, bringing its […] The post DEX Balancer Raises Million Ahead of its V2 Launch Next Month first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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This Week In DeFi – February 5

To the DeFi Community, This week in DeFi, Alpha Homora and Balancer rolled out V2 protocol upgrades, adding new ways […] The post This Week In DeFi – February 5 appeared first on DeFi Rate.

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Balancer V2 – March Launch

Balancer V2 is described as a generalized automated market-maker (AMM) protocol that improves upon V1 by achieving greater flexibility, security, […] The post Balancer V2 – March Launch appeared first on DeFi Rate.

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Following Balancer V2 protocol announcement, yield farming still in development

The team is awaiting community input to determine the parameters of V2's liquidity mining

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Balancer DeFi Protocol Battles Gas Fees with Reimbursement Plan

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer has just enabled a budget for a gas reimbursement program following a governance vote over the weekend. The pilot scheme involving 30,000 BAL tokens, valued at an estimated $630,000 at current prices, will run for four weeks starting on Jan.

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Balancer Labs Scores Investments From Pantera Capital and Alameda Research

Decentralized automated market maker Balancer has locked down investments from the institutional cryptocurrency venture firms Pantera Capital and Alameda Research in order to develop a second version of the protocol.

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Balancer Partners with NEAR Protocol for AMM Scalability

Balancer – a programmable liquidty and asset management protocol – has announced a bridge to NEAR protocol, a scalable Ethereum […] The post Balancer Partners with NEAR Protocol for AMM Scalability appeared first on DeFi Rate.

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Ocean Protocol Taps Balancer to Create a Marketplace for “Data Tokens”

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Ampleforth, Balancer Launch Rebasing “Smart Pool” to Prevent Impermanent Loss

Ampleforth, the protocol behind the elastic supply token, AMPL, announced today the launch of a rebasing "Smart Pool" in collaboration with Balancer Labs. The initiative will help reduce costly impermanent loss for traders.

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YAM Token Holders ‘Burnt the Hardest’ After Price Plunges to Zero

Yam Finance, an experimental DeFi protocol, crashed to zero after the discovery of a rebase bug. Compound, Yearn Finance, and Balancer plunged shortly thereafter.

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Balancer Token (BAL) surges 40% — has altcoin season arrived?

DeFi protocol Balancer shot up by 25% in just two hours and is now...

The post Balancer Token (BAL) surges 40% — has altcoin season arrived? appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Coinbase Reviewing 19 Crypto Assets for Listing, Including Wrapped Bitcoin and Paxos Gold

Crypto exchange Coinbase said Friday that it is reviewing 19 cryptocurrencies for possible listing. These new assets are: Ampleforth, Band Protocol, Balancer, Blockstack, Curve, Fetch. ai, Flexacoin, Helium, Hedera Hashgraph, Kava, Melon, Ocean Protocol, Paxos Gold, Reserve Rights, tBTC, The Graph, Theta, Uma, and Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC).

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Биржа Coinbase изучает возможность листинга 19 цифровых активов

В своем блоге Coinbase опубликовала список этих активов в алфавитном порядке: Ampleforth, Band Protocol, Balancer, Blockstack, Curve, Fetch. ai, Flexacoin, Helium, Hedera Hashgraph, Kava, Melon, Ocean Protocol, Paxos Gold, Reserve Rights, tBTC, The Graph, THETA, UMA и WBTC.

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Биржа Coinbase изучает возможность листинга 19 цифровых активов

В своем блоге Coinbase опубликовала список этих активов в алфавитном порядке: Ampleforth, Band Protocol, Balancer, Blockstack, Curve, Fetch. ai, Flexacoin, Helium, Hedera Hashgraph, Kava, Melon, Ocean Protocol, Paxos Gold, Reserve Rights, tBTC, The Graph, THETA, UMA и WBTC.

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Balancer DeFi Platform Approves First Liquidity Mining Proposals

Over the weekend, Balancer Labs initiated its first rounds of voting to address liquidity mining. The move is the DeFi protocol’s first steps towards full community-driven decentralized governance.

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As DeFi Is Marred by $500k Hack, Compound Is Changing Its Governance Protocol

After the DeFi project Balancer got hit by a $500,000 hack earlier this week, other projects have seemingly taken notice and changing rules on token distribution and governance. Compound is the first of these, as per a governance report Tuesday.

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DeFi Protocol Balancer to Reimburse the Losses of Liquidity Providers

Fernando Martinelli, the CEO, and Founder of Balancer Labs on June 30, 2020, responded to an incident where $500,000 worth of digital assets were lost saying the team would have done better and will now reimburse losses incurred by the affected liquidity providers.

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‘Sophisticated’ Hacker Plunders $450,000 From Defi Protocol Balancer

Decentralized finance (Defi) protocol ​Balancer was on Sunday hacked for more than $450,000 worth of cryptocurrency. In two separate transactions, an attacker targeted two pools containing Ethereum-based tokens with transfer fees – or so-called deflationary tokens.

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DeFi Protocol Balancer Exploited, Loses Over $500k to Hackers

Balancer Labs, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol for programmable liquidity and more, has been exploited by a bad actor who succeeded in stealing over $500k worth of altcoins from its Statera (STA) and STONK (STONK) lending pools, according to reports on June 29, 2020.

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Defi Protocol, Balancer (BAL) Community Votes On Updates To Prevent ‘Exploitation By Big Players’

Recent reports of FTX exchange ‘gaming' the Balancer Labs governance token, BAL, issuance raised a vote to quickly fix the platform to prevent “useless liquidity” from gaining rewards.

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