Networks

Aerodrome is a Solidly-fork ve(3,3) DEX on Base, the dominant venue on the Coinbase L2 by volume. It captures emissions-driven sticky liquidity and offers Slipstream concentrated liquidity.

Arrakis provides trustless, automated market-making infrastructure for concentrated liquidity. Arrakis Modular lets protocols and DAOs deploy and manage on-chain LP strategies (e.g. Uniswap V3/V4) without a token.

Aura is to Balancer what Convex is to Curve: it aggregates veBAL voting power to maximize Balancer gauge boosts, letting BAL/BPT holders earn boosted, auto-compounded rewards without locking BAL themselves.

Balancer is a generalized AMM supporting up to 8 assets per pool with arbitrary weights (not just 50/50), used for index-style pools and structured liquidity. V3 (2024+) added hooks.

Beefy is a decentralized, multi-chain yield optimizer. Its vaults automatically harvest farm rewards and recompound them back into the underlying LP position, maximizing compounded APY across dozens of chains.

Convex lets Curve LPs and CRV holders earn boosted rewards without locking CRV themselves. It aggregates veCRV voting power to maximize gauge boosts and auto-compounds CRV/CVX rewards for depositors.

Curve's stableswap invariant is optimized for trades between like-pegged assets (stablecoins, LSTs). It pioneered vote-escrow tokenomics where governance power is bought with locked CRV (veCRV).

Gamma is an active liquidity-management protocol that automates concentrated-liquidity positions (Uniswap V3, and other CLMMs) via non-custodial 'Hypervisor' vaults, rebalancing ranges to maximize fees.

Maverick is a capital-efficient AMM whose Dynamic Distribution engine auto-shifts concentrated liquidity as price moves (modes: Right/Left/Both/Static), reducing manual rebalancing for LPs.

PancakeSwap is the dominant DEX in the BNB ecosystem — retail-focused with gamification (lotteries, predictions, NFTs) plus its Infinity CLMM.

Uniswap is the leading automated market maker. V3 introduced concentrated-liquidity ranges; V4 introduced 'hooks' that let pools embed custom logic (TWAMM, dynamic fees, on-chain limit orders) without forking the core contract.

Yearn pioneered the yield-vault model: users deposit assets and Yearn vaults (yVaults) route them into the best available strategies — including Curve LP + Convex farming — auto-harvesting and recompounding rewards.