Balancer: Over $500,000 in forgotten assets discovered before shutdown, relevant institutions notified for retrieval.

October 27: The decentralized trading protocol Balancer announced that during an inventory of DAO assets, it unexpectedly discovered over $500,000 in assets and unclaimed rewards left in the protocol by external users and institutions, involving institutions such as Ethena and Gauntlet.

Among these, some liquidity assets in Balancer v3 use Vault internal accounting and cannot be properly displayed in block explorers or asset management tools like DeBank; some users have withdrawn v2 liquidity but still have unclaimed rewards. Balancer stated that it has notified the relevant asset owners, and some institutions have begun withdrawals. Previously, the Balancer community approved a proposal to gradually terminate the protocol's operations, and some pools will switch to withdrawal-only mode on October 30.