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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.

Details
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
Predecessors
Curve

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Tokenomics Timeline.

  1. 2020-06-23

    Token Launch

    BAL launched and distributed.

  2. 2022-03-28

    Launch of veBAL

    Balancer launched voting escrow token veBAL requiring locking of BTP for voting rights and profit share.

  3. 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 / mo
50%
65%
65M

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