# Chakra Alignment: March 1st, 2025

**Published by:** [Aura Finance](https://blog.aura.finance/)
**Published on:** 2025-03-02
**URL:** https://blog.aura.finance/chakra-alignment-march-1st%2C-2025

## Content

Regardless of how weird things get in crypto, things keep moving forward within the Aura ecosystem. Let's have a quick Chakra Alignment and reflect on the past month. Balancer v3 has already surpassed $67M in TVL with deployments to Base and Arbitrum, joining Eth Mainnent and Gnosis Chain. Over a dozen pools have made their way to Aura with boosted yields. Speaking of yields, vlAURA holders continue to be compensated for their votes. 👀 Aura @AuraFinance Rather than getting rugged on @stoolpresidente’s 17th meme coin, you can lock Aura and earn real yield. ~$270k of vote incentives were distributed to vlAURA voters in the last two weeks from @HiddenHandFi and @Paladin_vote. app.aura.finance/#/1/lock 14 8:08 AM • Feb 19, 2025 AIP-63 passed governance in Feb 2024, cutting AURA inflation by 12%. One year later, emissions have been further reduced by another 8% per year. ✂ Balancer co-founder Fernando Martinelli recently joined Coinshift to discuss Balancer v3, stablecoins, Coinshift’s csUSDC | csUSDL Boosted pool, and more. Coinshift @0xCoinshift *Not Financial Advise: Episode 3 Building the Ultimate DeFi Liquidity Engine: Inside Balancer V3 Ft. @fcmartinelli, Co-Founder of @Balancer Protocol. 0:05 - Balancer V3’s TVL growth & early wins 0:26 - The origins of Balancer: From AMM innovation to V3 2:30 - The "why" behind… 14 12:18 PM • Feb 13, 2025 Balancer launched StableSurge on v3, a new hook that uses a directional fee surge that helps protect stable asset pegs during volatility. This article describes bringing a new hook to production and how Balancer can aid teams in developing custom solutions.StableSurge - Idea To ProductBalancer recently launched StableSurge, the first production hook on V3 - an innovative directional fee mechanism that dynamically adjusts swap fees to help protect stable-asset pegs during...https://medium.comThanks for reading!

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