Binance Labs Supports Curve DAO Token with $5 Million Investment, Plans BNB Chain Deployment Crypto exchange
Binance’s investment arm, Binance Labs, has announced
a $5 million investment in Curve DAO Token (CRV) in a display of support
for Curve and decentralized finance (DeFi) at large.
As part of the collaboration,
Curve will expand its support to BNB Chain – the Binance-initiated blockchain for decentralized applications that uses BNB to pay gas fees. The protocol is already
active on a wide array of other layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains, including
Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Polygon, and others.
“This investment underscores Binance Labs’ commitment to collaborating with Curve and shaping the future of the DeFi sector,” wrote Binance in a blog post on Thursday.
Curve is currently the largest automated market maker for stablecoins (aka “stableswaps) and the second largest decentralized exchange (
DEX), next to Uniswap. It manages
roughly $250 million per day in trading volume, and boasts $2.4 billion in total value locked (TVL).
Yi He, Binance co-founder and Head of Binance Labs,
remarked in a statement that Curve plays a pivotal role in the broader DeFi ecosystem. “Given the recent events that have impacted the protocol, Binance Labs has offered our full support to Curve through our investment and strategic collaboration,” she added.
