2021-12-10 11:47:00
Balancer (BAL)Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM), built on the Ethereum blockchain, that allows users to trade and create liquidity pools with up to 16 different tokens.
These Smart Pools are controlled by a smart contract.
Additionally, pools can be made up of 2–16 tokens, and can be customized to represent the desired ratio of each token in a pool. On traditional decentralized exchanges (DEXs), liquidity pools are smart contracts that balance groups of tokens against each other, “pooling” them together to calculate a market price for each token. Traders are continuously rebalancing these pools and generating fees for liquidity providers (LPs) whenever a trade is executed.
Unlike Balancer, when these pools are created, they cannot be altered or adjusted. Tokens that are included in the pool and the
trading fee amount cannot be changed or removed. Smart Pools expand the utility of the Balancer protocol. These will create a new generation of liquidity pools, enabling pool creators to regularly adjust their pools even after launching. Since users will not have to create a new pool for every adjustment, creators will save on gas fees, while also being able to easily respond to market conditions, and increase profitability.
Recognizing that the NFT marketplace can be greatly improved by these pools, on August 26, Balancer Labs awarded a grant to Spectre to build a new type of liquidity pool for NFTs. Spectre is built on the Spectralization Bootstrapping Pool (SBP), a Balancer Smart Pool. These Smart Pools allow owners to customize the pools to meet their specific needs.
Spectre enables anyone to mint Ethereum standard (ERC-20) tokens, backed by NFTs, to create a liquid and permissionless art market. Spectre opens up NFT ownership to the masses by turning previously exclusive NFTs into fungible and liquid assets anyone can buy, sell, pool and govern.
NFT illiquidity and lack of price discovery is a problem. Balancer’s configurable pool architecture helps Spectre enable a liquid market infrastructure for early liquidity providers (minters) to align with buyers and sellers. With Balancer, Spectre can create a decentralized and permissionless market without sacrificing liquidity.
Thanks to Balancer Labs, users can trade fractionalized art tokens on Spectre without worrying about high slippage or unfair prices. This collaboration marks a shift towards a more reliable NFT market and expands Balancer’s ecosystem.
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