Curve

Curve is a decentralized exchange liquidity pool built to support the efficient trading of stablecoins. At present, Curve supports BTC pairs, as well as DAI, BUSD, sUSD, TUSD, USDC, and USDT. And through the help of AMMs (automated market makers), Curve makes low slippage trades possible while keeping transaction fees low. Most arbitrage traders prefer Curve compared with other liquidity pools like Uniswap simply because of the savings in trades. With only a few months in existence, the platform has already beaten other exchanges in terms of trading volume. With Uniswap at the top of the ranks, Curve performed stronger than projects such as Aave, Compound Finance and Balancer.

$CRV is Curve’s native token, it is generated when you deposit and stake cryptocurrencies on the platform. It is awarded to liquidity providers proportional to their share from the yield which their pools make. And since CRV has just been released, those who have contributed to Curve’s liquidity pool will receive a prorated amount of it.

With Curve’s transition to become a DAO, CRV tokens also represent the holders’ rights to take part in its governance mechanism, so they can make proposals and vote on them. And with CRV, governance will follow a ‘time-weighted’ voting system. It simply means that the longer they hold CRVs, the greater their voting power in the DAO becomes.

What yield-farmers also do is to take advantage of the popularity of DeFi to speculate on tokens such as $CRV. So what they would do is after depositing and earning the $CRV token, they would sell $CRV on the market for profit.