# CurveYield Pools

CurveYield Pools are the individual liquidity markets created through CurveYield DEX.

They use Balancer V3-style pool infrastructure and CurveYield-specific economics for fee routing, creator revenue, partner revenue, permanent liquidity, yield-bearing asset support, and incentive policies.

## Pool types

CurveYield supports two primary pool directions.

### Weighted pools

Weighted pools support arbitrary token weights and can include up to 8 tokens. They are useful for assets that are not tightly correlated.

### StableSurge-style pools

StableSurge-style pools support correlated or rate-aware assets and can include up to 8 tokens. These pools can use rate providers where appropriate for ERC4626 vault shares and other yield-bearing assets.

## Pool economics

CurveYield pool economics are documented in [CurveYield DEX](/products/curveyield-dex.md). All fee percentages in CurveYield pool policy refer to generated swap-fee revenue, not the full swap amount.

## Approved protocol pools

Approved protocol pools receive access to policy benefits that are not available to every pool.

These may include reduced admin fees, expanded creator-fee routing, DAO-funded incentive support, bribe-efficiency support, or partner frontend fee allocation.

These programs are governance-controlled growth policies. They are designed to reward pools that strengthen CurveYield through permanent liquidity, crvUSD/cyUSD support, partner integration, or strategic ecosystem value.

## Pool creation

Pool creators select the pool type, tokens, weights or amplification-style settings where applicable, swap fee, creator payout destination, and valid payout token.

Valid creator payout tokens are the pool tokens or the pool BPT. Governance-only settings remain outside the normal public pool creation flow.

## Productive pools

A CurveYield pool can hold assets that are already productive before swap fees are counted.

Examples include:

* CurveYield vault shares;
* StakeDAO BoostHub vault shares;
* liquid-locker tokens;
* yield-bearing stable assets;
* wrapped yield positions;
* partner vault assets;
* yield-bearing LP tokens.

This allows pool liquidity to earn from more than swap fees when the asset design, rate provider, oracle route, and liquidity profile support it.

## How pools fit the system

CurveYield pools can become:

* trading venues;
* yield-bearing liquidity positions;
* DAO-owned permanent liquidity;
* partner treasury assets;
* future collateral for lending markets;
* rate-aware assets bridged across chains;
* revenue sources for LPs, creators, partners, and the DAO.

The product goal is simple: pool liquidity should be able to connect into the rest of the protocol where risk controls, accounting, and governance policy support it.


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