Balancer since inception has only been as strong as the community around. The Grants team strives to motivate and facilitate the growth of the protocol by empowering others. Feedback on improving the Balancer Protocol is always welcome. The team internally and externally collects feedback proactively on how to improve Balancer.

💡Available RFPs

Grants Initiatives

Past and future grantees from all walks of Defi are welcome to apply for Balancer’s grants program. Beginners to seasoned veterans can bring value in different ways to Balancer and we are open to any and all new ideas. For inspiration, see our current hot topics as a DAO, and some more information related to grants we would be interested in funding. Feel free to suggest ideas not on mentioned below as well!

• 🎯 Current Focus
  • **🧮** Managed Pools
  • **🚀** Boosted Pools
  • **🌈** Custom Pools
• 📚 Grant Categories
  • 👥 Service Providers
  • 🗳️ Governance
  • 🔧 Integrations
  • 💗 Growth
  • 📊 Analytics
• ✅ Finalized and Live Grants

🎯 Current Focus

🧮 Managed Pools

Managed pools are one of the newest innovations Balancer Protocol is rolling out and there are endless possibilities for leveraging the technology for the future of Defi. The key features of Managed Pools which open up the realm of new possibilities are as follows:

• Dynamic set up to 20 tokens - Adding and removing of tokens from liquidity pools, similar to removing or adding an asset to an index fund in traditional finance.
• Circuit breakers where interactions such as trading and investing through pools can be paused in order to maximize the conservation of liquidity provider’s tokens.
• Dynamic adjustments of pool parameters such as weighting changes over time (similar to Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools) progressive swap fee changes increases or decreases.
• Dynamic swap fee - owner can update smoothly over time
• Swaps enabled / disabled by the owner
• The owner can restrict LPs to an allowlist
• The owner can charge a fee (manager and protocol swap fees - similar to the current protocol fee from Weighted Pools; AUM fees - new concept for a fee streamed over time as an annual percentage of the pool’s TVL)

🚀 Boosted Pools

Boosted pools are a direct competitor of concentrated liquidity style strategies in using liquidity provider assets to maximize the potential yield and therefore increase capital efficiency. A boosted pool has several underlying linear pools nested within it. These linear pools correlate to a single asset and a yield bearing wrapper of the same asset. For example, USDC and aUSDC, leveraging the excess USDC in a linear pool to capitalize on yield from lending on Aave.

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