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? The capital raise was led by Blockchain Capital, Fintech Collective, LongHash Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Continue Capital and Kain Warwick, the founder of DeFi protocol Synthetix. The funds will be used to strengthen Balancer’s role as a core infrastructure provider of the DeFi market. “By allowing for the most flexible and composable liquidity pools in the AMM space, the Balancer Protocol is uniquely positioned as a core infrastructure component....
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Protocol integrations, gas fee reimbursements and a bump in DeFi activity back Balancer’s rally to a new all-time high. Decentralized finance (DeFi) was the driving force behind the growth in the cryptocurrency market in early 2021 but lately, the sector has taken a back seat to nonfungible tokens as famous artists and legacy auction houses have been jumping into the NFT ring. A break from the spotlight has allowed some of the more popular DeFi projects like Balancer (BAL) to regroup and plan out the next steps for their protocols as they work towards creating a more interoperable and....
Two of the largest crypto funds join Pantera Capital and Alameda Research in contributing to Balancer's $12 millions series A funding round Balancer Labs announced today a $5 million investment round led by DeFi (decentralized finance) mainstays Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital. The two VCs now join Pantera Capital and Alameda Research in investing, brining Balancer’s series A round to a total of $12 million raised. The investment might come as a surprise to some, given that in a recent podcast Arthur of DeFiance Capital gave a less-than-glowing review of Balancer as an automated....
The new feature allows traders to tap into pools of assets that trade at similar price levels. Balancer claims to be the first automated market maker to offer stable pools. Balancer, a popular automated market maker for cryptocurrencies, has launched a new protocol feature designed to lower fees and improve the trading execution for like-kind waps.Stable pools “are designed specifically for assets that trade at a similar price,” wrote Fernando Martinelli, the co-founder and CEO of Balancer Labs. As such, the pools increase capital efficiency for like-kind swaps, thereby offering traders....
On Wednesday, the programmable liquidity platform Balancer Protocol announced the project has partnered with the Wallstreetbets defi project Wsbdapp. The announcement details that the two projects will collaborate in order to launch Wsbdapp’s exchange-traded portfolios (ETPs) on Balancer V2. Balancer Protocol and Wallstreetbets’ Defi Project Partner to Launch Exchange-Traded Portfolios Last week, Bitcoin.com News reported on the newly launched Wsbdapp decentralized finance (defi) platform hosted on the website wsbdapp.com. The application’s creators claim to be the....