Balancer protocol and programmable liquidity pools (2020–2021)

1. Balancer protocol launches on Ethereum

   Mar 1, 2020Labels: Balancer, Ethereum

   • BraveNewCoin
   • Seedtable

2. Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools (LBPs) popularize weighted token launches

   Mar 1, 2020Labels: Liquidity Bootstrapping, Balancer

   • Balancer Docs
   • Balancer Docs

3. Balancer proposes BAL governance token for decentralization

   May 1, 2020Labels: BAL token, Balancer

   • BraveNewCoin
   • CoinDesk

4. Liquidity mining begins to distribute BAL to providers

   Jun 1, 2020Labels: Liquidity mining, Balancer

   • CoinDesk
   • Nasdaq

5. BAL token is deployed and distribution is confirmed

   Jun 23, 2020Labels: BAL token, Balancer

   • CoinDesk
   • The Block

6. Deflationary-token exploit highlights smart contract edge cases

   Jun 28, 2020Labels: Exploit, smart contract

   • CryptoBriefing
   • Quadriga

7. Balancer and Gnosis move toward an integrated trading design

   Apr 1, 2021Labels: Balancer-Gnosis Protocol, Gnosis

   • Gnosis Forum
   • Gnosis Blog

8. Balancer V2 launches with the single-contract Vault

   May 11, 2021Labels: Balancer V2, Vault

   • Balancer Medium
   • Balancer Deploy

9. V2 enables more pool types and modular “programmable liquidity”

   May 12, 2021Labels: Balancer V2, programmable liquidity

   • CryptoSlate
   • Balancer Medium

10. Balancer-Gnosis-Protocol (BGP) launches as default on balancer.fi

    Oct 21, 2021Labels: Balancer-Gnosis Protocol, balancer fi

    • Cointelegraph
    • Gnosis Forum