What is Balancer?
Balancer is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol that enables portfolio management, liquidity provision, and trading. Unlike traditional AMMs, Balancer allows customizable pools with multiple tokens and different weights.
Balancer API Features
- Pool Data - Real-time liquidity pool information and metrics
- Swap API - Execute token swaps through Balancer pools
- Pool Management - Create and manage custom liquidity pools
- Yield Farming - Track BAL token rewards and incentives
- Price Oracles - Get accurate token prices from pool reserves
- Governance - Access proposal and voting data
API Endpoints
# Get all pools
GET https://api.balancer.fi/pools
# Get pool by address
GET https://api.balancer.fi/pools/{pool_id}
# Get swap data
GET https://balancer.fi/external-api/swaps
# Get token prices
GET https://api.balancer.fi/token/prices/{chain}SDK Integration
import { BalancerSDK } from '@balancer-labs/sdk';
const sdk = new BalancerSDK({
network: 1,
rpcUrl: 'https://eth-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/YOUR_KEY'
});
const pools = await sdk.pools.getPools();
const swap = await sdk.swaps.getSwap({
poolId: '0x...',
tokenIn: '0x...',
tokenOut: '0x...',
amount: '1000000000000000000'
});