Ekubo Blog
Protocol design, research and product notes from the team building Ekubo — open source, permissionless AMM infrastructure.
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Introducing Ekubo Wallet
A native EVM wallet for complex agent workflows, with policy-bounded unattended execution and owner-controlled keys.
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STONX: 2 weeks after launch
STONX generated $46.4M of volume and $21.6K of voter fees in two weeks. The next step is automating Ekubo, Inc.'s voting strategy.
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Ekubo extensions vs. Uniswap v4 hooks
How Ekubo extensions compare to Uniswap v4 hooks, and why one primitive — forward — replaces an entire category of hook machinery.
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Upgrades, bugs and a recovery fund
Seven proposals covering every contract upgrade the DAO has voted through — including frozen pools, a bug fix disclosed only after execution, and $300k for users hit by an incident.
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Paying for the work
Thirteen proposals on treasury and compensation — a 6M STRK grant, a $1.5M services agreement, and the contributor funding votes the DAO turned down more often than it approved.
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Ve33: a token-governed liquidity marketplace on Ekubo Core
Ve33 lets an ecosystem coordinate liquidity around a stake token: holders direct emissions, set pool fees, and earn the fees of the pools they support.
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The Huff router approval incident
A calldata parsing bug in the Huff router let callers spend ERC-20 approvals granted to it by other addresses. Approximately $1.43M was taken from 31 addresses on May 5, 2026.
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Where the revenue goes
Fourteen proposals building Ekubo's buyback machine — from handing the core contract to a proxy owner, to replacing the withdrawal fee with a 20% swap protocol fee.
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Oracles and protocol-owned liquidity
Ten proposals on the liquidity the DAO owns itself — $190k of oracle pools, a $1.25M Ethereum deployment, and the argument that a 15% price impact on a $10k trade is a protocol problem.
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Renting liquidity
Twelve incentive proposals over a year — waves, bribes, Arbitrum, and the moment the DAO stopped paying rewards in its own token. A third of them failed.
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Getting to Ethereum
Five proposals covering the audits, the source-available licence and the cross-chain plumbing that let a Starknet DAO own and govern contracts on Ethereum.
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Turning on the DAO
How Ekubo governance went live, and the six proposals that have shaped who can pass one — quorum, delay, voting period and the ability to simulate a proposal before creating it.
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The TWAMM bug and the refunds
A bug in the DCA sale cost users money and forced the DAO to reach quorum before it could act. Five proposals covering the fix, the refunds and the cleanup.