# BLabs Community Update // September 1, 2021

**URL:** <https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-september-1-2021/2194>\
**Category:** Community Updates\
**Created:** [September 1, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-september-1-2021/2194 "2021-09-01T16:07:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-september-1-2021/2194/1 "2021-09-01T16:07:58Z")

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# Smart Contracts

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

- Issue with single asset removal for wstETH has been fixed

**Stable Pools**

- OZ Audits ongoing for Stable Pools
  - No news is good news so far

**Liquidity Mining Distribution Contracts**

- Merkle Redeem: LDO claiming contract going well; additional teams inquiring
- MultiDistributor: OZ audits underway.

**Investment Pools**

- Weighted pool math w/ weight-shifting mechanisms, optional management fees, optional allowlists, and swap pause-ability
- In development

# 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)

- UI teams appear to be close to their respective launches. Copper likely first.

**Sidechains & L2**

- Arbitrum launched today!
- Polygon still going strong

# Frontend

**Balancer Ecosystem Pools**  
Element pools will be the first partner-created pools featured on the UI.

**Google Analytics**  
Considered DONE! Moving forward let’s make sure Google Analytics is on all newly launched products / sites

**Gnosis Launch**  
Updates: softlaunched; users can activate through user settings.  
_Status_: awaiting more complete coverage of Balancer pools (ex. Stable Pools) before it becomes the default.

**Working on upcoming features such as…**

- Pool creation UI
- Trade UI improvements
- Refreshed invest & withdraw flow

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-september-1-2021/2194/2 "2021-09-01T20:49:52Z")

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# Data

- TVL ~2.8B 🔥 Liquidity distribution: 50% on V2, 42% on V1, 8% on Polygon

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/balancer/original/1X/9a5dc8f990c0023173b57a102d3a1627f3c90dce.png)

- wstETH/WETH MetaStable Pool quickly made it to the top 5 mainnet v2 pools in liquidity

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/balancer/original/1X/aca81fd92644ec4cc8ac140ca7da074fa4939c74.png)

- Trading activity on Ethereum and Polygon

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/balancer/original/1X/c275dcedc5ed2f4b929147201b7ea6aaa45f4aef.png)

- Balancer’s market share growing on Polygon 🎉 Unfortunately Dune is not properly indexing Polygon events so data after Aug 23 is not reliable.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/balancer/original/1X/958dfb142369f4b691125c161a0269a49f6b539c.png)