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.
2M vlAURA delegated to Aura Finance in 3 days before its first round.
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Reached 2 million vlAURA delegated within 3 days before the first round began.
Integrated with Stake DAO to enable vlAURA delegation on Balancer Votemarket, allowing holders to delegate voting power for optimized rewards claimable weekly on Thursdays, with extra SDT rewards for early delegators.
Completes Incarna Burn Event and ends staking boost for Incarna NFTs earning XTER Power. AURA and Dinosty collection staking boosts continue.
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.