CU
Curve is the canonical DEX for trading between assets that should hold a similar price — stablecoins, liquid staking tokens, and pegged wrappers. The original StableSwap invariant compresses slippage near the peg, making Curve the cheapest on-chain venue for routing large stable-pair flow.
Later iterations (crypto-pools and Curve V2) extended the same automated-market-making approach to volatile pairs, and the veCRV/voting-escrow model that Curve introduced reshaped how DEXs allocate emissions through gauge weights. CRV remains one of the most copied governance designs in DeFi.