# BLabs Community Update // September 15, 2021

**URL:** <https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-september-15-2021/2223>\
**Category:** Community Updates\
**Created:** [September 15, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-community-update-september-15-2021/2223 "2021-09-15T15:50:44Z")\
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# Smart Contracts & Integrations

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

- Partners exploring creating their own
- Exploring multiple ways to facilitate trades through pool tokens

**Liquidity Mining Distribution Contracts**

- Merkle Redeem
  - Coming to Arbitrum soon!

- StakingDistributor
  - Audit finished
  - A few things to be addressed, nothing major

**Stable Pools**

- OZ Audit completed
  - No math problems discovered
  - Performing one extra multiplication that isn’t required, so could be very slightly more efficient

**Investment Pools**

- Live on testnets (Kovan, Rinkeby)
  - Waiting on these partners to deploy their pool

[**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)

- Copper
  - Launched and announced their UI

- Polygen
  - No updates

- PrimeDAO
  - No updates

**Sidechains & L2**

- Arbitrium TVL: ~$30m
  - [Network went down recently](https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1437789076514611208)
  - Artificial rate limit in place; matching L1 throughput

- Polygon TVL: ~$175m
  - No news

- Any more side chains or L2 planned? No. Still no.
  - Announced at last community call

**Aggregators**

- Discussing MetaStable Pools w/ 1inch
- SOR Effort: what do aggregators need? How can we facilitate making this as easy as possible?

# Frontend

**Balancer Ecosystem Pools**

- Element is live and other ones should be easy to add

**Investment Pools** (ie \>8 Token Pools)

- UI mostly done
- Darkmode designs in process or finished
- What other info/functionality do we want to add more this?
  - Pool Metadata
    - Off-chain data (who is this pool manager, what’s their background etc)

- Techemy & WSB are expecting this

**Gnosis Launch**

Waiting to complete their solver integration  
Soft-launch is done. Full launch is for Gnosis to be the default option.

# Ecosystem Team

- Marketing
  - Priorities
    - (1) Product & Partnership Marketing
    - (2) Hackathons
    - (3) Developer Marketing
    - (4) Content Marketing (including video)

  - Hackathons!
    - Polygon
    - ETHGlobal

  - Branding
    - Firm Selected!

  - Highlight LM and Developer Messaging
    - Dev Docs
    - Audiences
    - Bottlenecks

- Documentation (biz dev)
  - Improve our current documentation to provide an accurate map for developers to discover what can be done with Balancer
  - Ship the new interesting use cases (developer team)
  - Work with marketing to determine the best distribution channel for this information to “land” with the right audience

- Grants
  - Indexed grant has been granted! Work has begun
  - dHEDGE trading and LP support
  - HaloDAO exploring FOREX
  - Tempus separating yield and principal
  - Start looking into vertical-specific grants committees
    - Ex. NFT sub-committee

- Community
  - Two calls/month might be too much
  - Monthly community call upcoming (Sept 29)
  - Monthly tech call
  - AMAs highlighting partnerships

- Partnerships / Growth
  - Lots of projects going on
    - Drowning in partnerships
    - Asset/Portfolio Management Space
      - Index Fund projects
      - Time to target DAO Treasuries

  - Scouting
    - Wide view of DeFi and identify opportunities
    - Exploring how to bring degens to Balancer