Te Aratohu Katoa ki Balancer
A plain-English guide to Balancer, the automated market maker (AMM) with weighted pools. It covers how the pools and the Vault work, the BAL and veBAL token system, what changed in v3, where the yield comes from and what can go wrong.
He aha te Balancer?
Ko Balancer tētahi kawa pūtea whakawhiti (DeFi) e whakahaere ana i tētahi kaihanga mākete aunoa (AMM): he huinga kirimana atamai e āhei ai ngā kaiwhakamahi ki te whakawhiti pūtohu ki te pūtea whakauru kua whakahuihuia, kaua ki te whakaōrite ota. I whakarewahia ki Ethereum i te Maehe 2020, nā Fernando Martinelli rāua ko Mike McDonald o Balancer Labs i whakatū. Ko tōna whakaaro motuhake ko te puna taumaha. I te wā e pupuri ana ngā AMM o te reanga tuatahi i ngā pūtohu e rua i te uara ōrite, ka taea e tētahi puna Balancer te pupuri i ētahi pūtohu maha i ngā taumaha ritenga, e ai ki te pepa mā, Balancer (tirohia ngā Puna).
Ka whakawhānuitia e Balancer te tātai hua pūmau e whakamahia ana e Uniswap ki te tātai toharite-pauna. Ka taea e tētahi puna pauna te pupuri tae atu ki te waru tohu i roto i tētahi ōwehenga, e ai ki ngā tuhinga a Balancer: hei tauira, 80% ETH me 20% USDC, e toru rānei ngā rawa i te 33/33/34. Nā te mea ka pupuri ngā hokohoko kōkiri i te puna ki ōna pauna e whāia ana, ka pupuri ngā kaiwhakarato monomoni i tētahi mea pēnei i te pūtea taupū whakahoki-ake i a ia anō e kohi utu whakawhiti, kaua e utu i te utu whakahaere.
Waiwai Whakaritea
Pools can be created with custom token weights, swap fees and logic. Developers can build new AMM curves and, in v3, attach hooks to existing pool types.
Kaiwhakahaere Pūranga
Arbitrageurs trade against the pool whenever it drifts from its target weights. Liquidity providers (LPs) earn fees on those trades instead of paying for rebalancing.
Pūtea whaihua
Ka wehewehea e te Pouara Whakataunga Atamai ngā hokohoko puta noa i ngā poka kia kitea ai te utu pai ake. Ka whakatau te Vault i ngā whakawhitinga tohu kupenga anake o te whakawhiti hikoi maha, ka penapena i te hau.
Me pēhea te mahi a Balancer
Balancer's core is its weighted math, a generalisation of the constant product model (x * y = k). Each token in a pool has a weight, and the pool keeps a weighted product of its balances constant across every swap. This lets a pool hold uneven allocations while still quoting a price for any pair of its tokens. The formula is set out in the whitepaper and the Balancer docs (see Sources).
Ina ka whakawhiti te kaihokohoko i runga i te Balancer, ka rapu te Smart Order Router (SOR) i te ara tino whaihua puta noa i ngā puna wātea. Mō tētahi hokohoko nui, ka taea e ia te wehewehe i te ota puta noa i ētahi puna maha hei whakaiti i te pānga utu.
Pūreke Whaiwhāiti
Te momo puna taketake. He taumaha tō ia tohu (hei tauira 80/20, 60/20/20 rānei) e whakatau ana i tōna wāhanga o te uara o te puna. Ka pupuri te invariant o te puna i te hua taumaha o ngā toenga tohu kia tū tonu.
An 80/20 ETH/USDC pool aims to keep 80% of its value in ETH and 20% in USDC. As market prices move, arbitrageurs trade against the pool until it is back at those weights, and LPs earn a swap fee on each trade.
Aratohu Ota Matauranga
The SOR queries Balancer pools to find the best path for a trade. For large swaps it can split the order across several pools to reduce price impact. Traders get a better price and more pools see volume.
Ko nga kaiwhakawhiti penei i a 1inch, ParaSwap me CoW Protocol ka whakawhiti i etahi o a raatau hokohoko ma roto i nga puna Balancer, no reira ka whiwhi nga puna i te rōrahi mai i nga kaiwhakamahi kaore ano kia whakatuwhera i te taupānga Balancer.
Te Pouaka
Introduced in Balancer v2 in 2021, the Vault is a single contract that holds and accounts for the tokens of every Balancer pool. Pool contracts only hold the pricing logic. Per the Balancer docs, this split is what makes the rest of the design possible.
A multi-hop swap through the Vault only transfers the net difference at the end of the transaction, which lowers gas costs. The Vault also offers flash loans: tokens borrowed and repaid within one transaction.
Ngā Pūtea Tere & Ngā Whakawhiti Pūrei
Batch swaps run several swaps in one transaction and settle only the net token transfers. This makes routes with many hops cheaper than running each hop separately.
Flash loans let arbitrageurs borrow tokens from the Vault for the length of one transaction, use them to close a price gap between pools, and repay them before the transaction ends. This keeps pool prices close to the wider market. The flash loan fee is set by governance, per the Balancer docs.
Ngā Momo Pūreke o Balancer
Ka tautoko a Balancer i ētahi momo puna maha, he mea hanga ia momo mō tētahi whakamahinga rerekē. Kei roto i ngā tuhinga Balancer (tirohia ngā Puna) te rārangi o nāianei, me ērā momo kua whakakorehia.
Pūreke Whaiwhāiti
The most general pool type, with up to eight tokens at custom weights, per the Balancer docs. It suits index-style portfolios that earn trading fees. A common setup is an 80/20 pool that pairs a protocol's governance token with ETH; Balancer itself uses one for BAL/WETH.
Pōro Pūtō
I hangaia mō ngā tohu e hokohoko tata ana ki te ōwehenga 1:1, pēnei i ngā moni pūmau (USDC, DAI, USDT) me ngā tohu whakapūmau wai ki te ETH (wstETH/WETH). Ka whakamahi ngā puna pūmau i te ānau StableMath e pupuri ana i te utu kia piri tonu ki te here, nō reira ka iti ake te paheke mō ngā whakawhitinga i waenga i ngā rawa rite. I te v2 ka kīia tēnei momo ko te Composable Stable Pool.
Ngā Puna Raina (v2, kua whakakorehia)
A v2 pool type that paired a base token (for example DAI) with its yield-bearing wrapper (for example aDAI from Aave) using a linear pricing curve. Linear pools were the building blocks of v2 boosted pools. Balancer deprecated them after a vulnerability disclosed in August 2023, per the Balancer forum. v3 replaces them with liquidity buffers.
Pūreke Whakapiki
Boosted pools send liquidity that is not needed for swaps to a lending market such as Aave, so LPs earn both swap fees and lending interest. In v3, a 100% boosted pool holds its whole balance in yield-bearing tokens (ERC-4626 vault shares), and a buffer of the underlying token handles swaps, per the Balancer v3 docs.
Te whakarato pūtea i Balancer
A liquidity provider (LP) deposits tokens into a pool and receives Balancer Pool Tokens (BPT) in return. BPT is an ERC-20 token that represents your share of the pool. Its value grows as the pool collects swap fees.
Me pēhea te tuku waiwai
Kōwhiria tētahi pūreke
Tirotiro i ngā puna i te taupānga Balancer. Tirohia te reiti ōrau ā-tau (APR), te tapeke uara kua maukati (TVL), te ranunga tohu me te momo puna. He nui ake te tūraru e hāngai ana ki te APR teitei.
Tuku Tohu
You can deposit all of a pool's tokens in proportion, or a single token. Single-token deposits are simpler but cause some price impact, depending on the pool's depth.
Whiwhi & Tāpae
Ka whiwhi koe i te BPT mō tō wāhanga. Whakaurua te BPT ki te ine o te puna kia whiwhi ai koe i ngā utu BAL i runga ake i ngā utu whakawhiti, mēnā he ine tō te puna.
Te mārama ki te ngaro kāore i te mau
Impermanent loss (IL) is the gap between the value of your pool share and the value of simply holding the same tokens, when their prices move apart after you deposit. The larger the move, the larger the gap. Pool weights change how much IL you take:
Pūreke 50/50 (IL teitei)
Mēnā ka piki rua te utu o tētahi tohu ki tētahi atu, ka ngaro tētahi puna 50/50 tata ki te 5.7% ina whakatairitea ki te pupuri, mā te whakamahi i te tātai puna taumaha i roto i ngā tuhinga Balancer. Ko ēnei puna te nuinga o ngā utu ka riro mai i te hokohoko ā-rua engari he nui ake te IL ka mau.
80/20 Pūreke (IL Iti)
Mēnā e 80% o te puna kei roto i te tohu pōnānā, ka puta mai te IL tata ki te 3.3% mō te whakareatanga ōrite, mai i te tātai ōrite. Ka pupuri te puna i te nuinga o tōna pānga ki te tohu i neke. Koinei tētahi take e whakamahi ana te maha o ngā kawa i ngā puna 80/20 mō tā rātou tohu whakahaere.
Tōkena BAL & kāwanatanga veBAL
BAL is the governance token of the Balancer protocol. Since 2022 its main use is the vote-escrow model, veBAL, which rewards holders who lock their position for longer. The full tokenomics are in the Balancer docs (see Sources).
Ngā Tokonoma BAL
Pūnaha veBAL
To get veBAL, you first provide liquidity to the 80/20 BAL/WETH pool and receive BPT. You then lock that BPT for a period of up to one year. The longer the lock, the more veBAL you receive, and the amount decays as the lock runs down, per the Balancer docs.
Pōti i ngā taumaha ine hei whakatika i ngā tukunga BAL ki ngā puna kua whiriwhiria
Receive a share of protocol fees; the split is set by governance vote (current figures on the forum)
Boost BAL rewards on your own staked liquidity by up to 2.5 times
Pōti mō ngā Whakaaro Whakapai Balancer (BIPs) mā Snapshot
Gauge Votes & Vote Incentives
As with Curve, a market for gauge votes has grown around Balancer. A protocol that wants more BAL emissions for its pool can offer payments to veBAL holders who vote for that gauge, through vote-incentive platforms such as Hidden Hand. These payments add to the income of veBAL holders beyond protocol fees. Aura Finance pools veBAL on behalf of depositors and passes the boost and vote incentives through to them (see Sources).
Balancer v2 ki v3
Kua tukuna e Balancer e toru ngā putanga matua. I te v1 (2020) kotahi te kirimana mō ia puna. I te v2 (2021) i whakaurua te Vault. Ko te v3, i whakarewahia ki te Ethereum mainnet i te Hakihea 2024, ka tāpiri i ngā hooks, te hanga puna māmā ake me ngā puna whakanui taketake, e ai ki ngā tuhinga Balancer v3. Kei te rere tonu ngā puna v2 i te taha o te v3.
Āhuatanga
Balancer putanga 2
Balancer putanga 3
The most notable v3 feature is the hooks system. A hook is a separate contract that runs custom logic before or after a pool operation (a swap, a deposit or a withdrawal) without a new pool type. Per the Balancer v3 docs, this makes it easier to build things like dynamic swap fees or pools that adjust their own liquidity.
Ngā Rautanga Hua i Balancer
Ka taea e ngā LP Balancer te whiwhi moni mai i ētahi paparanga maha i te wā kotahi. He puna ake tō ia paparanga, he tūraru ake hoki. Ka whakaatuhia ngā tatauranga APR ora mō ia poka i te taupānga Balancer, me te TVL ora i runga i DefiLlama (tirohia ngā Puna).
Utu Whakawhiti
Te paparanga tūāpapa. Ko ia hokohoko mā tō puna ka utu i tētahi utu whakawhiti ka noho tonu ki te puna, nō reira ka piki te uara o tō BPT. Ka whakatau ia puna i tōna ake utu i roto i te awhe e whakaaetia ana e te kawa (0.0001% ki te 10% i te v2, e ai ki ngā tuhinga Balancer). Kāore he mea e hiahiatia ana kia kerēmea.
Ngā Whakaputa BAL & Te Whakamau Aroturuki
Whakauruhia to BPT ki te ine o te puna kaukau kia whiwhi ai koe i ngā utu BAL ā-wiki. Ko te nui ka whiwhi te puna kaukau ka whakawhirinaki ki ngā pōti veBAL e tukuna ana ki tōna ine. Ka taea e ngā kaipupuri veBAL te whakanui ake i ō rātou ake utu ki te 2.5 whakarea, e ai ki ngā tuhinga a Balancer.
Taumata Pūreke Whakapiki
In a boosted pool, liquidity not needed for swaps sits in a lending market such as Aave or Morpho and earns interest. That interest comes on top of swap fees, so one deposit earns from two sources.
Māheinga & Rautaki Āta
He tohu ERC-20 paerewa a BPT, nō reira ka taea te whakamahi i roto i ētahi atu kawa. Ētahi tauira noa, he rerekē te tūponotanga mō ia mea:
Pōro Whakarara
Use the BPT of one pool as a token inside another pool, so one deposit spans several pools.
Aura Moni
Deposit BPT into Aura to receive boosted BAL rewards plus AURA tokens without locking veBAL yourself, per the Aura docs.
BPT hei Ārai
Some lending markets accept certain BPT as collateral, so you can borrow against an LP position while it keeps earning fees.
Kōpaki Hua
Platforms such as Beefy auto-compound Balancer rewards back into the position for a performance fee.
Ngā mōrearea o te whakamahi i a Balancer
Like every DeFi protocol, Balancer carries risks. Understand them before you deposit into any pool.
Ngaro Wā Poto
When token prices move away from the ratio at which you deposited, your pool share is worth less than holding the tokens. The loss becomes permanent if you withdraw at that new ratio. Volatile pairs carry the most IL. Correlated pairs (stablecoins, LST/ETH) and weighted pools that lean toward your preferred asset reduce it.
Mōrearea Kirimana Atamai
Balancer's contracts have been audited by firms including Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin and Certora (reports are in the GitHub repositories, see Sources), and the protocol runs a bug bounty. Audits do not remove risk. In August 2023 a flaw in some v2 boosted pools was exploited, and in November 2025 a rounding flaw in v2 Composable Stable Pools was exploited for more than $100 million across several networks, per the post-mortems on the Balancer forum. Check which pool version you use and read the latest security notices.
Mōrearea motuhake o te pūreke
Pool creation is permissionless: anyone can create a pool. Some pools hold tokens with malicious contracts, rebasing supply or fee-on-transfer logic that behave badly inside the Vault. Verify each token contract in a pool before you deposit, and prefer pools that Balancer governance has approved for a gauge.
Mana whakahaere & Ngā mōrearea ōhanga
Ka taea e ngā kaipōti veBAL te neke i ngā tukunga BAL atu i tō puna, ka tapahia tōna APR utu. Ko te nuinga o te hua o ngā puna maha ka puta mai i ngā whakatenatena BAL, nā reira ki te heke te utu BAL, ka heke tahi taua hua, ka taea e te waiwai te wehe, ka whānui haere ngā mokowhiti.
Ngā Pātai Auau
He aha te Balancer?
Me pēhea te rerekētanga o Balancer i te Uniswap?
He aha te veBAL, ā, pēhea te mahi a te kāwanatanga?
He aha ngā mōrearea o te whakaratonga waiwai i Balancer?
He aha te rerekētanga i waenga i a Balancer putanga 2 me putanga 3?
Haere tonu ki te ako
Ngā tuhinga me ngā aratohu e pā ana ki te waiwai me te hua o DeFi.
He aha te Balancer?
A short overview of the Balancer protocol, its main features and where it fits in DeFi.
Beefy Finance Aratohu
Me pēhea te whakakotahi aunoa a Beefy i te Balancer me ētahi atu hua DeFi puta noa i ngā mekameka maha.
Aratohu Morpho
Me pēhea te mahi o te kawa tuku moni a Morpho, tētahi o ngā mākete tuku moni ka taea e ngā puna whakarei te whakamahi.
Ngā puna me ngā pānuitanga atu anō
Ka whakawhirinaki ngā tatauranga me ngā kerēme o tēnei whārangi ki ngā tuhinga kei raro nei. Ka neke ngā tatauranga pā ki te wā (reiti, hua, utu, raraunga mākete): tirohia te uara ora i te puna i mua i te mahi.
- Balancer documentationdocs.balancer.fi
Pool types, weighted math, the Vault, swap fee ranges, veBAL, gauges, boosts and the v3 hooks system.
- Balancer whitepaperbalancer.fi
The weighted constant-mean formula behind Balancer pools and the original design (2019).
- Balancer v2 monorepo (GitHub)github.com
Source code of the v2 Vault and pool contracts, plus the audit reports folder.
- Balancer v3 monorepo (GitHub)github.com
Waehere pūtake o te Vault v3, ngā matau me ngā puna whakarei, me ngā pūrongo arotake v3.
- Huinga kāwanatanga Balancerforum.balancer.fi
Balancer Improvement Proposals (BIPs), the protocol fee split, and post-mortems of the August 2023 and November 2025 incidents.
- Kirimana tohu BAL (Etherscan)etherscan.io
Te tapeke tuku BAL ora me ngā raraunga kaipupuri i Ethereum.
- DefiLlama, Balancerdefillama.com
Live total value locked (TVL) and volume across Balancer deployments.
- Aura Finance documentationdocs.aura.finance
Me pēhea te whakahuihui a Aura i te veBAL hei whakanui i ngā utu BAL mō ngā kaipupuri pūtea.
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