Audience
Anyone interested in a protocol for programmable liquidity
About Balancer
Balancer protocol is a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor. Customizable number of assets and weights within a pool. Trade against all pools in the Balancer ecosystem for best price execution. Pools controlled by smart contracts can implement any arbitrary trading strategy or logic. Exchange tokens without deposits, bids / asks, and order management. All on-chain. Preview an expected trade price for two assets given existing liquidity and slippage. Trades are split through an SOR which performs an optimization across all pools for best price execution. Frontends are open-source and will be made available through IPFS. Trade any tokens without need for whitelisting or approval. A Balancer Pool is an automated market maker with certain key properties that cause it to function as a self-balancing weighted portfolio and price sensor. Up to 8 tokens. Any weights. And programmability through smart-contract owned pools.