# BLabs x Community Update // September 29, 2021

**URL:** <https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-x-community-update-september-29-2021/2245>\
**Category:** Community Updates\
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-x-community-update-september-29-2021/2245 "2021-09-29T22:01:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/blabs-x-community-update-september-29-2021/2245/1 "2021-09-29T22:01:14Z")

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# Smart Contracts & Integrations

Liquidity Mining Distribution Contracts

- Merkle Redeem/Orchard
  - MerkleRedeem is catching on
  - Soon we’ll have Merkle Orchard to consolidate these Redeem contracts all to one contract (per network)

- StakingDistributor
  - Will make this push after MerkleOrchard

Linear Pools

- Nothing worth sharing; on time to be finished
- Audits happening

Managed Pools

- Techemy, WSBDapp deployed on mainnet
  - Sorting out a few things on the UI but generally going smoothly

- General expected Managed Pool usage
  - Deployed pool is not meant to be used in isolation, but rather should be paired with a management contract
    - Pools will not be considered “safe” by default until their management contracts are inspected (UI allowlist, for example)

[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
  - Balancer UI now points back to Copper UI for LBPs

- Polygen
  - No updates

- PrimeDAO
  - No updates

Sidechains & L2

- [Arbitrum](https://arbitrum.balancer.fi/#/) TVL: ~$64m
  - We have a [StaBAL3 with DAI](https://arbitrum.balancer.fi/#/pool/0x1533a3278f3f9141d5f820a184ea4b017fce2382000000000000000000000016) now!

- [Polygon](https://polygon.balancer.fi/#/) TVL: ~$141m
  - No news

- Any more side chains or L2 planned? No. Still no.

Aggregators

- Planning on comparing 1Inch vs SOR prices
  - User-friendly data will go a long way to show cases where SOR is better

- Show them how helpful batchswap is
  - 1Inch is still using singleswap
  - Going to do this on Kovan w/ balpy

- Paraswap has been very cooperative with us

# Frontend

Managed Pools

- Add support for joins when swaps are disabled
- New join type
  - AllTokensInForExactBptOut

Gnosis Launch

Waiting on full solver integration; we’re on the same page for launch expectations. They’re working on it.

Subgraph Changes

- PRs almost ready to be merged
  - Trading UI updates will be merged after

- Analytics subgraph idea pulling data from not just Balancer, getting more accurate price data

Pool Creation

- Design being finalized

Merkle Orchard

- Will start looking into this this week

Docker Tests

- Looking to decentralize frontend

# Ecosystem Team

- New BLabs folks!
- Marketing
  - Sponsoring ETH Denver in Feb
  - Thursday - Twitter spaces w/ Techemy/WSBDapp
  - Starting work on video on Gnosis/Balancer partnership

- Biz Dev
  - Going to start working more closely with Polygon
    - Grants and Promotion
    - Ex. Copper

- New Grants
  - UMich grad students working on Liquidity Optimization Algorithm
  - RealEstate.exchange developing KYC compliant real estate trading on top [Medium](https://medium.com/@BalancerGrants/realestate-exchange-will-bring-its-tokens-into-the-balancer-ecosystem-716b84259443)
  - Governance bot that’ll tweet when Snapshots start and end

- Community
  - Proposal to revamp LM on Polygon live
  - Next Baller meeting in 2 weeks
  - Sourcecred launched