• Balancer Labs has issued a warning to the liquidity providers of five pools to withdraw their funds immediately.
• The pools that require immediate withdrawals include Tenacious Dollar on Fantom, It’s MAI life, and Smells Like Spartan Spirit on Optimism, as well as DOLA/bb-a-USD on Ethereum.
• The emergency multisig has set the protocol fees of some Balancer pools to zero in order to avoid a related issue.
Balancer Labs has issued a dire warning to the liquidity providers of five pools, urging them to withdraw their funds immediately. The pools that require immediate withdrawals include Tenacious Dollar on Fantom, It’s MAI life, and Smells Like Spartan Spirit on Optimism, as well as DOLA/bb-a-USD on Ethereum. In a statement released on Twitter, Balancer Labs said that the funds totaled to $6.3 million and that LPs should remove their liquidity as soon as possible as the issue cannot be mitigated by the emergency DAO.
The emergency multisig has set the protocol fees of some Balancer pools to zero in order to avoid a related issue, though it remains unclear what the issue is. Balancer Labs has stated that the issue will be publicly disclosed in the near future, but has not specified when. Furthermore, the company has said that LPs do not need to take any additional action if an emergency multisig has set a pool’s transaction costs to zero, as fees will still be collected by the pools.
The statement from Balancer Labs has sent shockwaves throughout the crypto community, as the news has raised serious questions about the security and reliability of the protocol. Many users have expressed their concern over the situation and are now worried about the safety of their funds and the future of Balancer.
It remains to be seen how this situation will play out and what the implications will be for Balancer and its users. In the meantime, users are advised to follow Balancer’s instructions and withdraw their funds from the affected pools as soon as possible. It is also important for users to keep an eye out for any updates or announcements from Balancer Labs and to stay informed about any changes or developments that may occur.