One Big Pool: Balancer’s New Version Cuts Down Transactions and Gas Fees

In what may become an industry standard, unused liquidity from Balancer will be deposited into Aave, significantly increasing depositor yield In the latest feat of decentralized finance (DeFi) money lego magic, lending platform Aave and automated market maker (AMM) Balancer have teamed up on a hybrid liquidity-and-lending feature that may significantly fatten depositor yields.In a blog post today, Balancer CEO Fernando Martinelli unveiled plans for the project, dubbed the Balancer V2 Asset Manager. In essence, the integration will allow users to earn two forms of return on their deposits:....

Bitcoin mining is an important part of the bitcoin ecosystem. Miners who participate in mempools help to confirm transactions for which they receive a reward once a transaction is cleared. Usually, the mempool is ‘free’ and transactions go through easily with low fees but there are times when the mempool fills up causing transactions fees to surge. This was what took place at the start of March. Bitcoin Transaction Fees Surge At the beginning of the month, bitcoin had experienced higher transaction fees. These higher fees were as a result of transaction clustering in the mempool. Once the....

Automated market makers, or AMMs, have become a staple of the rapidly growing DeFi industry. Balancer, a leading automated market maker, has launched version 2 of its protocol, promising faster speed, lower costs and improved liquidity. In addition to revamping the user interface, Balancer’s backend will provide more efficient routing for trades through “Protocol Vault.” The platform claims that this upgrade will reduce gas costs and produce better pricing mechanisms. Expected gas costs are said to be 40% lower in version 2 – a figure that jumps to 53% with internal balances. Balancer....

The two protocols will collaborate on a joint platform that will combine the best features of each. Decentralized exchange Balancer and decentralized finance platform Gnosis have announced today a planned integration dubbed the Balancer-Gnosis-Protocol, a collaboration that will combine Balancer’s v2 pool mechanisms with Gnosis’s DEX aggregation and batch auctions designed to mitigate miner extractable value, or MEV. Balancer’s v2, which is currently live for developer testing, was announced in February and boasts a host of new features: All liquidity will be pooled into a single vault for....

BTC-e, the notoriously private bitcoin exchange rumoured to be based out of Bulgaria, has revealed that it has reduced fees across three of its third-party withdrawal services. The news was revealed via a string of Twitter posts beginning on 27th February and continuing into 28th February that called for USD and EUR withdrawal fees to be reduced to as low as 1%. The move brings withdrawal fees closer to the site's USD deposit fees, which were slashed to 0% on OKPAY and Perfect Money earlier in February. BTC-e imposes an additional standard fee of 0.2 to 0.5% fee on every transaction.....