Balancer
AMM with flexible pools and ve-Token with fee share
Categories:
DeFi
Updated:
2023-03-10
Tags:
AMM
Ticker:
BAL
Token Strength.
Token Utility:
Governance, Yield bearing for ve-Version.
Demand Driver:
Governance: decide over treasury, fees and liquidity mining rewards. Voting escrow (veBAL): 75% of protocol fees are paid to veBAL holders.
Value Creation:
Low gas decentralised exchange, split of vault and pool logic leads to potentially deeper pools, flexibility of pool weighting.
Value Capture:
Fees accrue to treasury and token holders decide over usage.
Business Model:
Collects fees from trades and withdrawals.
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Protocol Analysis.
Problems & Solutions | Interesting VE implementation where not the main token BAL is lock but the liquidity token, received for adding to the BAL/WETH pool. This ensures liquidity |
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Predecessors | Curve |
Investment Take
... coming soon
Tokenomics Timeline.
2020-06-23
Token Launch
BAL launched and distributed.
2022-03-28
Launch of veBAL
Balancer launched voting escrow token veBAL requiring locking of BTP for voting rights and profit share.
2031-06-23
90% of FDV reached
Balancer has reached about 35% of its fully diluted valuation and it will be about 9 years until 90% of max supply is reached.
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Allocation and Emission.
Monthly Emissions
Category
Lockup Period
Unlocking Period
% Allocation
Token Allocation
Founders, Options, Advisors, Investors
0
36
25
25M
Ecosystem Fund
0
0
5
5M
Fundraising Fund
0
0
5
5M
Epoch Based Emissions
Category
Epoch Duration
Initial Emissions
Reduction per Epoch
Allocation
Token Allocation
Community
~ 48 mo~ 630K / mo50%
65%
65M
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