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Curve Best Yields & Key Metrics | Week 51

Weekly yield and Curve ecosystem metric updates as of the 20th December, 2024

Savings-crvUSD: A Month in Review

Launched on October 31, 2024, Curve’s yield-bearing version of crvUSD—Savings-crvUSD—has now been live for just over one month. If you are unfamiliar with Savings-crvUSD, we recommend starting with this introductory article. In short: Savings-crvUSD was designed to sustainably expand the scaling of crvUSD and increase long-term revenues

Liquidity Pools

Ethena Leverages Curve Finance to Support USDtb Launch: A Stablecoin Backed by BlackRock and Securitize

Ethena, in collaboration with Securitize and backed by BlackRock’s BUIDL, has launched USDtb, a new stablecoin set to be integrated into Curve Finance, the leading decentralized exchange for secondary markets.

News

Curve Best Yields & Key Metrics | Week 50

Weekly yield and Curve ecosystem metric updates as of the 13th December, 2024

Governance

Introducing Curve’s Updated Governance app

Curve Finance unveils its revamped DAO pages, bringing governance back home with improved user experience.

News

scrvUSD gets its first yield market on Spectra

A new scrvUSD yield-trading liquidity pool with a May 15th 2025 maturity launched on Spectra Finance, providing new yield opportunities for scrvUSD holders. Spectra’s DAO aims to onboard the liquidity pool to it’s veAPW gauge system (Spectra Gov Proposal) and offer further incentives to liquidity providers underwriting yield

Curve-Lite

Curve-Lite now available on Corn

Corn, an Ethereum Layer-2 network built on Arbitrum Orbit rollup stack, has launched with Curve-Lite as its preferred DEX for the network’s secondary market needs. The network uses a hybrid tokenised BTC model as its gas token (BTCN), where the underlying BTC is backed by trusted and industry-leading BTC

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Curve + Elixir + BlackRock: A $533M Bridge Between TradFi and DeFi

Institutional Giants Unite: BlackRock's $530M Fund Taps into DeFi Through Curve and Elixir Partnership

Curve-Lite

Taiko Launches Curve-Lite

Taiko, Ethereum’s first Based Rollup leveraging Ethereum’s sequencing capabilities, is a step up in the crypto innovation landscape. Taiko has now entered the spotlight by launching Curve-Lite, a streamlined DAO-controlled Curve DEX instance.

New Products

Curve Offers Express Deployment of its DEX on supported Rollups

Ethereum's ecosystem is expanding through its rollup-centric approach to scaling. There is a growing list of Rollup-as-a-Service teams such as Conduit, Caledera and Gelato (among many, as shown in this article), alongside a growing number of rollups that settle on Ethereum (Layer-2s) such as Base, Arbitrum and Optimism.

Liquidity Pools

Gauntlet Boosts cbBTC/wBTC Pool Rewards

Gauntlet, a leading economic modeling and DeFi risk management firm trusted by major protocols such as Compound, Morpho, NEAR, and Uniswap, has initiated a significant liquidity campaign for the cbBTC/wBTC pool on Curve. The initiative has already shown significant impact with substantial rewards flowing to liquidity providers (LPs), and

News

Curve Finance observes Revenue Growth post US Elections

The period following Donald Trump's recent U.S. election victory has been highly profitable for the cryptocurrency industry. Key stocks like $MSTR and $COIN have been re-evaluated, and Bitcoin ($BTC) is nearing the $100,000 mark. There has been an increasing demand for leverage, with the 7-day moving

Llamalend

More Convenience for Your Llamalend Positions

Curve's new LlamalendMonitor provides real-time monitoring and alerts for loan positions across Llamalend's crvUSD and lending markets on all networks.

crvUSD Featured

Introducing Savings crvUSD (scrvUSD)

CurveDAO launches Savings crvUSD (scrvUSD), a yield-bearing version of its stablecoin, enabling users to earn "low-risk" autocompounding interest on their crvUSD deposits.

Ahead of the Curve - November '24

A two-week campaign on the cbBTC/WBTC @CurveFinance gauge is live. In the few days since launching with $26K incentives, the gauge has received 5.6M veCRV votes. The tAPR is increasing 9.16% → 22.90% CRV. pic.twitter.com/MLOnWswUfy — Gauntlet (@gauntlet_xyz) October 31, 2024 In a month

CrvUSD Adds a New PegKeeper

The Curve DAO has approved and implemented a major governance proposal to integrate Mountain Protocol's USDM stablecoin into the crvUSD PegKeeper system, establishing a 10 million crvUSD debt ceiling. The proposal was executed on the 23rd of October. This marks a new expansion of Curve's crvUSD

Ahead of the Curve - October '24

Another month of Curve in the books, featuring some impressive development updates. 👋https://t.co/D1JKSgeJnn — The LLamas (@WenLlama) September 23, 2024 Nothing to see here https://t.co/G1APPjpbF5 — Panda (@chonkypandu) September 22, 2024 The Curve Fee Splitter, necessary for st-crvUSD, is headed for a DAO vote, meaning it

Ahead of the Curve - September '24

In the 300 year arc of Curve, August 2024 will most likely be known for the major Curve emissions reduction: $CRV HalvesCurve’s $CRV token officially celebrated its fourth birthday with its most notable emissions reduction to date. The emissions reduction was officially triggered at Aug-12-2024 10:21:59 PM

$CRV Halves

Curve’s $CRV token officially celebrated its fourth birthday with its most notable emissions reduction to date. The emissions reduction was officially triggered at Aug-12-2024 10:21:59 PM UTC The famous tx reducing $CRV issuance for the next year. https://t.co/Aspm0ROkJE — Saint (Llama) Rat (@saint_rat) August

Ahead of the Curve - August '24

After a short [two year] hiatus, the official Curve news site is back! In this issue we recap all of July 2024's major Curve updates! Already feels like ancient history with August looking to be... interesting. crvUSD July became an historic month for $crvUSD, marking the first month

Ahead of the Curve#007

More exciting times for Curve, with deposits north of $4 billion. By some measures, Curve is now the top DEX in the universe. > Looks like we're the first DEX by TVL, according to @DeBankDeFi [https://twitter.com/DeBankDeFi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]https://t.co/jtJpOrpAPt pic.

Ahead of the Curve#006

In governance... The main event of the week was no doubt the launch of cross-asset swaps on Curve. Those new swaps allow anyone to trade across different Curve pools via Synthetix. Those swaps were released just about 7 days ago and account for around $41m volume, a modest share of

Ahead of the Curve#005

In governance... Since our last newsletter, the stETH pool has been added to the protocol. This pool will be incentivised by CRV from Thursday and will also receive LDO, the governance token for Lido [lido.fi]which will also distribute Ethereum2.0 staking rewards to the pool. The team is

Ahead of the Curve#004

In governance... It's been an extremely busy couple of weeks on Curve. pBTC, BBTC and oBTC, three new tokenized Bitcoin are now trading  and will start receiving CRV rewards tonight. UST was also the sixth 3Pool Metapool [https://resources.curve.fi/faq/base-and-metapools]to join the protocol. Another

Ahead of the Curve#003

In governance... The biggest event of the week was no doubt the launch of fee claiming. There has been over 700 claims in the past few days and there are still over $1m in unclaimed fees. Anyone who has locked veCRV may claim their fees by clicking the claim button