# BLabs Community Update // August 26, 2021

**URL:** <https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-august-26-2021/2174>\
**Category:** Community Updates\
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-august-26-2021/2174 "2021-08-26T12:37:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-august-26-2021/2174/1 "2021-08-26T12:37:27Z")

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# Smart Contract & Integrations

Building [on] a secure & flexible protocol

## Smart Contracts

[**MetaStable Pools**](https://docs.balancer.fi/core-concepts/protocol/pools#metastable-pools)

_Updates_: Lido wstETH/WETH pool launch went well, with a few UI tweaks following launch. LDO Distributions are available to claim here: [https://claim-lido.balancer.fi/#/](https://claim-lido.balancer.fi/#/)  
_Status_: Launched, monitoring

**Liquidity Mining Distribution Contracts**

_Status_: [Lido is live](https://claim-lido.balancer.fi/#/), Staking contracts are under audit

**Linear Pools**  
_Updates_: Nothing of note; moving forward as expected. Some pieces w/ uncertainty are developing smoothly. No unexpected issues so far.

## Integrations

[**Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools**](https://docs.balancer.fi/core-concepts/protocol/pools#liquidity-bootstrapping-pools)  
_Updates_: Deployed  
_Status_: Live and waiting on external UIs (PrimeDAO, Copper, Polygen)  
Example UI from Copper

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/balancer/original/1X/92df5184c768bbc53550df3f4610fd61e78bcd8d.png)

**Sidechains & L2**

_Updates_:

- [Polygon](https://polygon.balancer.fi/#/)
  - Going fine
  - MATIC distributions ending

- Arbitrum is launching SoonTM

_Status_: Upcoming

## Frontend

**Balancer Ecosystem Pools** (How to display pools of projects building on Balancer?)  
_Updates_: Working on displaying pools from other teams. Need some subgraph changes  
_Status_: in progress. Starting with [Element.fi](http://Element.fi)

**Gnosis Solver**  
_Updates_: soft launched!  
_Status_: UI ready

**Frontend team updates** :

- invest/withdrawal flow work
- Hotfix for metastable wstETH withdrawals
- Metastable pool chart fices
- Refactoring the SOR
- Create SOR V2 repo
- Gnosis improvements
- Arbitrum UI
- Subgraph improvements

## Ecosystem Team

- Marketing:
  - Branding
  - Hackathons!
    - Polygon (sooner)
    - ETHGlobal

  - [Decentralization blog post](https://medium.com/balancer-protocol/decentralization-at-balancer-labs-14875b4092be) from BLabs COO Kristen Stone
  - Interview requests
  - Developer marketing
    - Docs timeline
    - Audiences
    - Bottlenecks

- Balancer Grants
  - Their own blog, organization, everything
  - They posted on Medium
  - BLabs is handling one last grant in progress; they’re doing the rest

- Community
  - Monthly community call went well
  - Monthly tech call in 2 weeks
    - What does the community want to know about, Gnosis integration?

  - Partner AMAs

- Documentation
  - Talk to Jeremy about tech writer
  - Balancer-tutorials underway
    - Goal: python, js, solidity samples/tutorials/walkthroughs

- Strategy
  - Partnerships!
  - Governance
    - POAP for snapshot votes
    - Cross chain strategy
    - Delegation!

  - Community building

- People Ops
  - [Job listings!](https://angel.co/company/balancer-labs-1/jobs)