Curve

2023

September 13: Chaos Labs launches $crvUSD Risk Monitoring and Alert Platform

• It provides high-level metrics aggregated across $crvUSD markets, including total supply, total borrow, TVL, the sum of collateral at risk of liquidation, and more.

August 26: $tBTC enabled as $crvUSD collateral.

August 26: $sfrxETH enabled as $crvUSD collateral.

August 19: Silo Finance launches Silo Llama.

• Enables $crvUSD to its own isolated credit markets.

August 7: The deadline for the CRV/ETH exploiter passes.

• The bounty is extended to the public with a reward valued at 10% of the remaining exploited funds of $1.85m USD total.

August 1: Vyper versions exploited.

• A compiler bug in Vyper versions 2.15 through 3.0, allowing a reentrancy attack for pools handling raw $ETH.
• Multiple protocols were affected, including Curve’s CRV/ETH pool.

July 21: Conic Finance exploited.

• Conic is an omnipool protocol for the Curvefinance ecosystem.
• Only the $ETH omnipool was affected.

June 26: $wETH enabled as $crvUSD collateral.

June 25: $wBTC enabled as $crvUSD collateral.

June 8: $wstETH enabled as $crvUSD collateral.

May 31: Tricrypto-ng pools are deployed.

• The new-generation (ng) pools allow cheaper gas transactions.

May 20: Gauge votes for 4 crvUSD pools go live.

• The pools are paired with $USDC, $USDT, $USDP and $TUSD, used for stabilisation of $crvUSD.

May 18: crvUSD UI goes live.

May 14: Redeployment of crvUSD completes.

• There is no error but fixes an issue of unexpectedly high gas usage in certain cases.

May 5: Third deployment of crvUSD completed.

• There is no error but fixes an issue of unexpectedly high gas usage in certain cases.

May 4: crvUSD smart contracts are deployed but not finalized as the UI requires deployment too.

• A redeployment is within the same day as veCRV would not get fees due to a mistake in the deployment script.

April 26: Pool creation page is implemented into the new UI.

February 14: Vote to enable stablecoin pools with proper price oracle implementation (to be used by external protocols) goes live.

• Required for crvUSD to function autonomously.
  

January 14: BitGo integration goes live.

• Secure and scalable solutions for the digital asset economy, offering regulated custody, borrowing and lending.

2022

December 31: The Llama Airforce team launches a new front-end for Curve DAO proposals.November 22: Curve launches on Celo chain.

November 3: A new UI version is deployed.

October 3: Integration with Gearbox Protocol (Composable Leverage Protocol) goes live.

September 6: Github code for crvUSD released.

June 10: A team member, Kendric Llama, mentions that crvUSD is on the way in discord.

• A still-in-production stablecoin by Curve.

May 19: Proposal to stop emissions to UST (US Terra) related gauges (following the UST-LUNA events).

April 9: New Curve router goes live, enabling better swaps between different pools.

April 2: A 4pool concept is put up for proposal in the Terra ecosystem, consisting of UST, FRAX, USDC and USDT.

March 15: A proposal for a FundRaising Gauge concept is put up, able to be used to fund raise with practically any logic.

• First proposal is to fund Vyperlang, a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM.

January 20: v2 Factory pools launches.

• Presets for volatile/volatile (like ETH<>coin) and things like forex are available.
  

January 18: Curve launches on Optimism chain.

2021

October 12: Curve launches on Harmony chain. 

October 5: Curve launches on Avalanche chain.

September 14: Curve launches on Arbitrum chain.

September 1: The Fantom Foundation starts the liquidity mining event for Fantom LPs on Curve.

• Over 1M FTM per month for 12 months.

June 10: Curve v2 launches. 

• First crypto pools on Ethereum and Polygon launches, allowing users to trade between non pegged assets (ie ETH to USDT) with native Curve pools for the first time.

May 27: Convex Finance, a protocol aiming to simply Curve boosting goes live. 

• Convex lets liquidity providers claim and earn boosted CRV.
  

April 20: Curve launches on Polygon.

March 3: Curve joins the Ren Alliance.

• A consortium of DeFi companies and/or projects that are helping secure, develop, and utilize RenVM (renBTC, renZEC, etc).
  

March 2: Curve factory v2 is launched.

• The factory allows anyone to deploy Curve 3CRV and sBTC pool with new additions like the TWAP.
• Pools in the factory v2 with over $500k in 3CRV liquidity, over $3m monthly volume and an audit will be added to the main Curve UI.

February 26: Curve launches on the Fantom chain.

January 26: CRV staking begins on Binance.

January 21: A sneak peek of Curve’s new UI is introduced.

January 17: Cross-asset swaps via Synthetix IO goes live.

• Users are able to convert tokens into other tokens cross-chain.

2020

December 23: AAVE pool is integrated into Curve.

December 21: The first ETH pool launches on Curve.

• Users can trade ETH against sETH and provide liquidity for it.

December 9: Fees claiming is enabled, veCRV holders claim their fees for the first time.

• Around $3m fees to be claimed. 

November 20: Vote to process accumulated fees to veCRV lockers is passed with 100% support.

• Over $2.5m in fees to be distributed.

October 18: Proposal to start utilizing the community fund for ecosystem, DAO and community grants.

• For individuals, teams of all sizes looking to develop tools, projects that could benefit from grants.
  

October 8: Curve’s first metapool launches.

• Enables trading GUSD (Gemini USD) for the 3pool.
• The metapool uses the 3Pool as its base pool meaning you can deposit into this pool using 3Pool LP tokens or the stablecoins from the 3Pool (DAI-USDC-USDT).
  

September 17: 50% of trading fees from Curve begins to accumulate to be distributed to veCRV holders. CRV trading begins on Kraken Exchange (Cryptocurrency exchange).

September 16: The tri-pool (3pool) is launched. 

September 7: The stablecoin tri-pool (DAI/USDC/USDT) is put up for a vote.

August 27: Vote locking boost begins, up to 2.5x.

August 23: Curve DAO is enabled for Gauge weight voting.

• Locked CRV tokens can be used to vote to change each pool gauge weight. 
• Gauge weights are used to determine how much CRV each pool receives. 
• CRV must be locked for at least a week in order to be able to vote for the gauge weights.
  

August 20: CRV token officially launches, claimable on the DAO site.

• CRV will reward liquidity providers in Curve pools.
• CRV will be awarded retroactively to providers since the launch of Curve in January as well as current liquidity providers.
  

August 19: Deployment is audited by Trail of Bits and Quant Stamp.

August 14: CRV token was deployed by a non-related user, based on smart contracts published on github, front-running the team’s efforts.

• The deployment is verified as acceptable by the team.
• The team is forced to adopt it due to the deployment gaining traction.

August 10: Pre-launch period ends for early liquidity providers.

• Any liquidity provided after would not be counted towards the initial CRV vested distribution
• Pre-launch liquidity providers would receive 5% of the total supply compared to the initially announced 3%. This takes the total share of CRV to be distributed to liquidity providers to 62%.
• Earned CRV will be vested for a year.

July: Telegram announcement group is created.

January 12: Curve Twitter account publishes its first tweet.

January 9: Curve launches.