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Balancer risk
This material is for informational purposes only and is not exhaustive of all risks associated with trading Balancer. All crypto assets are risky, there are general risks in investing in Balancer. These include volatility risk, liquidity risk, demand risk, forking risk, cryptography risk, regulatory risk, concentration risk & cyber security risk. This is not intended to provide (i) investment advice or an investment recommendation; (ii) an offer or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold crypto assets; or (iii) financial, accounting, legal or tax advice. Profits may be subject to capital gains tax. You should carefully consider whether trading or holding crypto assets is suitable for you in light of your financial situation. Please review the Risk Summary for additional information.
Investment Risk
The performance of most crypto assets can be highly volatile, with their value dropping as quickly as it can rise. You should be prepared to lose all the money you invest in crypto assets.
Lack of Protections
Crypto assets are largely unregulated and neither the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) nor the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) will protect you in the event something goes wrong with your crypto asset investments.
Liquidity Risk
There is no guarantee that investments in crypto assets can be easily sold at any given time.
Complexity
Investments in crypto assets can be complex, making it difficult to understand the risks associated with the investment. You should do your own research before investing. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Concentration Risk
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Putting all your money into a single type of investment is risky. Spreading your money across different investments makes you less dependent on anyone to do well. A good rule of thumb is not to invest more than 10% of your money in high-risk investments.
Five questions to ask yourself
- Am I comfortable with the level of risk? Can I afford to lose my money?
- Do I understand the investment and could I get my money out easily?
- Are my investments regulated?
- Am I protected if the investment provider or my adviser goes out of business?
- Should I get financial advice?
DeFi tokens
Decentralised Finance ("DeFi") tokens are crypto assets built on decentralised blockchain technology for financial applications or protocols. Risks linked to DeFi tokens include:
Enterprise Risk
Interactions between multiple DeFi protocols create a situation where a vulnerability or breakdown in one protocol can trigger a cascading effect, affecting other interconnected platforms.
Technology Risk
DeFi protocols frequently depend on external data sources or oracles, and any tampering or inaccuracies in these data streams can result in a lack of trust and reliability in the protocols.
Regulatory Risk
Governments and regulatory bodies around the world can introduce new regulations or ban certain aspects of the cryptocurrency market, affecting its legality and viability, which could affect token liquidity and/or value.
Legal Risk
Certain tokens may be used for operating a decentralised exchange platform which may contain additional risks:
- The platform may allow users to participate who have not been vetted or verified and therefore expose the possibility that users are interacting with sanctioned entities.
- The platform may be accessible in jurisdictions where some or all the exchange activity should be regulated. If a local regulator deemed the platform activity to be in breach of local regulation, they may request cessation or termination of the service which could affect token liquidity and/or value.
Market Risk
Given their novelty, the evolving technology involved and lack traditional asset structure, valuing crypto assets can be very difficult or impossible. This means valuations are determined by demand that is at risk of manipulation in various ways.
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Balancer (BAL) is an automated market maker (AMM) designed to function as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, providing users with specific key properties. Additionally, it serves as a price sensor, allowing users to collect fees for providing liquidity instead of paying them to portfolio managers.
Utilizing Balancer offers a range of benefits for all participants involved. Traders gain access to liquidity, liquidity providers receive rewards, and the crypto industry progresses toward greater decentralization.
You can buy BAL tokens on several different spot trading markets. One example is the crypto exchange OKX, which offers a BAL/USDT pair. The OKX Convert feature also allows you to convert your existing holdings, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), and USD Coin (USDC), to BAL.
Dive deeper into Balancer
The crypto industry dedicated significant time to solving the challenge of creating decentralized exchanges (DEXs) as an alternative to centralized platforms. However, initial DEXs faced issues with limited liquidity, which hindered user adoption. This changed with the advent of automated market makers (AMMs), providing DEXes with a more robust solution. Balancer, a popular project, is an example of an AMM successfully addressing liquidity challenges in the industry today.
What is Balancer?
Balancer is an AMM built on the Ethereum blockchain. Launched in March 2020, it raised $3 million through a seed round. Like other AMMs, Balancer offers its own liquidity pools where users can deposit tokens. By contributing liquidity to these pools, users become liquidity providers (LPs), and their assets are utilized for executing transactions on exchanges. LPs receive rewards in exchange for their participation, making it an incentivized and beneficial role.
The Balancer project team
Fernando Martinelli and Mike McDonald founded Balancer. The project originated as a research program within BlockScience, a software company, in 2018 before evolving into its current form. Before Balancer, Martinelli had a background as a serial entrepreneur and was actively involved in the Maker community. McDonald assumed the role of CTO at Balancer, leveraging his experience as a security engineer and the creator of mkr.tools.
How does Balancer work?
Balancer operates as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, serving as an LP and a price sensor. It allows users to generate profits through its native cryptocurrency, BAL. To participate, users contribute to the project's customizable liquidity pools. Three types of pools are available: private, shared, and smart.
Private pools grant ownership and governance to the pool creator, while shared pools are designed for LPs. Smart pools function similarly to private pools but are controlled by smart contracts. Users earn rewards in the form of Balancer Pool Tokens (BPTs).
Balancer native token: BAL token
The native cryptocurrency of the Balancer project is BAL. Although it was not initially introduced at the project's launch, BAL was created in June 2020 to function as the project's governance token. This decision was influenced by the success of Compound's COMP token.
Currently, BAL enhances decentralization and serves as a motivating factor for LPs. The maximum BAL supply is 96.1 million tokens, with a total supply of 57.6 million units. As of June 2023, the circulating supply of BAL is 49.95 million tokens.
BAL token use cases
As a governance token, BAL holds primary use cases within the Balancer ecosystem. It enables token holders to participate in decision-making by voting on proposals and shaping the platform's future.
Apart from its governance role, BAL can be used for trading and purchasing, provided entities are willing to accept it. Furthermore, users can stake BAL to earn rewards and provide liquidity in Balancer's pools, further enhancing the token's utility within the ecosystem.
Balancer token distribution
Balancer token (BAL) distribution is as follows:
- Twenty-five percent was reserved for the team, core developers, investors, and advisors.
- Five percent was allocated to the Balancer Ecosystem Fund for incentives and partners.
- Five percent was allocated to the fundraising fund.
- Liquidity providers will mine the remaining tokens.
The importance of AMMs
AMMs, including Balancer, hold significant importance in the crypto industry as they facilitate the existence and operation of DEXes. By offering liquidity, AMMs contribute to advancing the industry's goal of achieving complete decentralization.
Furthermore, AMMs provide traders with an alternative to centralized exchanges (CEXs), allowing them to engage in decentralized trading. Additionally, LPs can earn passive income by supplying liquidity to AMMs. The project's ability to benefit all parties involved is among its greatest strengths.
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