what's Aura Finance?
Aura Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol designed to enhance yield and governance participation for liquidity providers on the Balancer protocol. It introduces mechanisms like vote-escrowed token locking (veBAL) to coordinate incentives, allowing users to boost rewards from liquidity provision and governance voting. By aggregating Balancer's liquidity pools and enabling meta-governance, Aura creates a flywheel effect where stakers and voters receive amplified returns from protocol fees and emissions. The protocol operates across multiple chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Polygon, using its native AURA token for staking, locking, and governance. Users can stake AURA to earn rewards, participate in boosted pools, or lock for veAURA to direct incentives toward preferred liquidity sources. Aura integrates deeply with Balancer's ecosystem, supporting liquid staking tokens (LSTs) and other DeFi primitives to optimize capital efficiency without introducing new liquidity silos.
Aura Finance operates an AAVE-GHO-USDT-USDC yield vault on Ethereum with $27.37M TVL and 10.36% APY.
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Delegation reached a new all-time high of 13.85M vlAURA delegated across Ethereum and Base.
Has a 75SDEX/25AAVE-Lido-ETH Balancer LP pool on Ethereum with $136K TVL offering 20.6% APY as of February 11, 2026.
operates an AAVE-GHO-USDT-USDC yield strategy vault on Ethereum (in partnership with Balancer v2 and Aave V3) with a TVL of $27.37M, offering a current APY of 10.36% and a 30-day average APY of 9.69%.
Unified vlAURA voting incentives with veBAL on Votemarket, allocating $11,000 USDC across 5 campaigns for Balancer Core Pool incentives. Received $10K USDC incentives from Balancer for vlAURA voters across 10+ gauges on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Gnosis. Rocket Pool deposited an ~$8K Votemarket campaign for RPL rewards by voting for the Balancer rETH - Aave WETH gauge.
Went live on both Ethereum and Base networks.
vlAURA delegation rewards distribution scheduled for 2026-01-22
Reached 3M vlAURA delegated on February 11, 2026.
Delegated 15.15M vlAURA to Stake DAO as of February 25, 2026. Rewards claimable weekly on Thursdays, with extra SDT rewards for early delegators.
Hidden Hand voting incentives platform winds down operations with the last round ending on December 31st, 2025, affecting vlAURA vote incentive distribution previously available through this platform.
Completes Incarna Burn Event and ends staking boost for Incarna NFTs earning XTER Power. AURA and Dinosty collection staking boosts continue.
Receives $REZ tokens from Renzo Protocol's investor distribution contract in recent days, appearing alongside SevenXVentures and Wintermute as distribution recipients.
Block Party Season 2 farming event for AURA tokens ends in 5 days.
Launches Starboard platform with chatandbuild for AI agent and app creation. Offers up to $5K plus exclusive NFTs for top Aura contributors and Galxe Quest participants.
Users can earn AURA through supply and borrow activities on Friendly Markets.
cbBTC automated vault farming now available across three platforms: Gamma Strategies, Steer Protocol, and Ichi Foundation with single-sided options.
Notional V3 confirms 100% position loss for all Balancer/Aura leveraged vault users from the Balancer exploit, with total bad debt of 641.4 ETH on Mainnet and 80.2 ETH on Arbitrum forcing Notional V3 protocol shutdown on both chains.
Over $100M exploited from Balancer protocol, exposing AURA to cascading failure risk as it relies on Balancer's underlying infrastructure.
$100K tournament playoffs begin this week with global player competition for finals ticket. New deflationary WILD token contract launched last week with permanent supply reduction on every burn, and daily check-ins are now live with mission-based in-game rewards coming soon.
AURA token experiences massive 247x price surge over 3-day period.
Historical price divergence creates arbitrage opportunity between auraBAL and sdBAL tokens, with sdBAL offering additional voting power benefits.
Market cap reaches $600M with early holders taking profits at this level
Major breakout occurring with market cap expanding from $4M to exceed $200M