{"id":573202,"date":"2026-03-24T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=800999"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:32:00","slug":"balancer-labs-to-shut-down-as-dao-takes-control-of-protocol-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/balancer-labs-to-shut-down-as-dao-takes-control-of-protocol-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancer Labs to Shut Down as DAO Takes Control of Protocol Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/down-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Balancer Labs to Shut Down as DAO Takes Control of Protocol Future\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Balancer co-founder Fernando Martinelli said Balancer Labs will shut down as the protocol pivots toward a leaner, DAO-led structure following months of financial strain and fallout from a 2025 exploit. The End of Balancer Labs Balancer Labs, the original development entity behind the decentralized exchange ( DEX) protocol, is being wound down after what Martinelli [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancer co-founder Fernando Martinelli said Balancer Labs will shut down as the protocol pivots toward a leaner, DAO-led structure following months of financial strain and fallout from a 2025 exploit. The End of Balancer Labs Balancer Labs, the original development entity behind the decentralized exchange ( DEX) protocol, is being wound down after what Martinelli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-573202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}