Curve Finance’s Michael Egorov proposes transaction fee of core crvUSD pools be doubled for higher CRV income

Curve Finance CEO, Michael Egorov, initiated a governance proposal suggesting transaction fee rate of crvUSD pools be doubled from 0.01% to 0.02%.
If transaction volume remains same, Curve is likely to generate higher income, while protecting it from price oracle manipulation.
CRV price is in a consistent decline, yielding 10.35% losses for holders over the past week.

Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange platform, suffered an exploit on July 31. Hackers took off with over $50 million in crypto assets and this negatively influenced CRV token price. The asset’s price has been in a consistent decline since the event.

Michael Egorov, the founder and CEO of the project, recommended that the transaction fee of core liquidity pools (crvUSD) be doubled from 0.01% to 0.02%. Egorov initiated a governance proposal for the same.

Governance proposal by Michael Egorov

The proposal serves two purposes:

First, it increases Curve’s income if transaction volume remains the same
Second, it makes it expensive and difficult for exploiters to engage in price oracle manipulation

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Reasons why doubling transaction fees of crvUSD pools

Higher revenue generation is likely to benefit Curve and its community of holders. This could act as a bullish catalyst and push CRV price towards its recovery, after months of decline. Moreover, price oracle manipulation recently resulted in a $6.4 million exploit on Magnet Finance, a project based on Coinbase’s newly launched BASE chain.

Protecting the project from price oracle manipulation is therefore beneficial to CRV token holders in the long term.

At the time of writing, CRV price is $0.4515, after yielding 10.29% losses for holders over the past week and 38.24% in the past month.

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