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

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

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 to join the protocol. Another addition was the EURs pool which

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

In governance... CIP#40, the vote to enable fee distribution has completed and the changes have been executed two days ago. The fees accrued to date have also just topped $3M. USDN interests initial distribution will also take place in the coming days. Three new proposals were submitted, the first

Building Price Manipulation Resistant DeFi Applications with Curve Finance Liquidity Pools

In governance... A proposal to add a tokenized ZEC (wZEC and renZEC) pool has passed a successful signal along with a metapool to add another tokenized Bitcoin flavour called pBTC from the pTokens team: https://ptokens.io/ sCIP#17 is also proposing to utilise the community fund to stake CRV

Areas of research and interest As we keep receiving applications for ecosystem grants, we would like to suggest areas of research and interest for the Curve ecosystem. Those are just ideas of applications we'd like to see, it's by no means an exhaustive list. All applications

A new interview with the Curve team is available to read on Crypto Rand's website by clicking here [https://cryptorandgroup.com/interview-with-curve-team/].

Curve Finance, pending DAO approval, is proposing to start utilising the community fund for ecosystem, DAO and community grants. Those three type of grants have the common goal of encouraging and developing the Curve ecosystem and empowering the community. Ecosystem Grants Ecosystem grants aim at encouraging and developing the Curve,