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Just re-read @CredibleCrypto's Curve Wars thread — one of the best explainers on how Convex changed the game.
Read that first if you haven’t already.
2026 bonus: what’s crazy is that the core thesis still holds.
@ConvexFinance still controls about 53.5% of all veCRV. So the key idea — that aggregating governance power and routing incentives efficiently would matter a lot — was not some temporary cycle phenomenon. It became durable market structure.
And I think that’s the part that aged best.
Convex didn’t just help users farm harder. It simplified a system that would otherwise heavily favor large lockers, whales, and people willing to actively manage every moving part. Instead of forcing everyone to individually lock CRV, monitor gauges, optimize boosts, and stay on top of governance mechanics, it pooled that complexity into one layer and turned it into a much more accessible system for regular users.
That sounds simple now, but at the time it was a huge shift. It took something that was technically powerful but operationally messy and made it far more usable. In a lot of ways, that was the real innovation: not inventing incentives, but organizing them better than everyone else.
And the model clearly had second-order effects.
The same “aggregate vote power, direct emissions, maximize capital efficiency” framework spread well beyond the original Curve context. Convex itself now shows sizable control across multiple vote-escrow ecosystems, not just veCRV. So what originally looked like one protocol finding an edge increasingly looks, in hindsight, like the emergence of a broader DeFi design pattern.
That matters because it tells you this wasn’t just a one-cycle meta or some niche governance game that worked under a specific market setup. The structure had staying power. It solved a real coordination problem, and DeFi kept reusing the playbook because it worked.
Also worth noting: Curve is still sitting around $1.8B TVL today. That alone says a lot. In a sector where narratives come and go fast, that kind of durability suggests the underlying liquidity engine and incentive design were not just clever in theory — they were resilient in practice.
To me, that’s what makes all of this interesting to look back on now.
It wasn’t just a clever setup for one moment in the market. It ended up being a structure that actually lasted. And in DeFi, that’s pretty rare.
A lot of things get a ton of attention for a while and then fade once conditions change. This didn’t. The system kept working, people kept using it, and the logic behind it still makes sense years later.
That’s really what stands out to me most — not just that it worked back then, but that it still feels relevant now. Feels like one of those things where the repricing will look obvious in hindsight. $CVX
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