Convex Finance

Convex Finance (CVX)

What is Convex Finance?

Convex sits on top of Curve Finance to aggregate veCRV-style boosting: Curve LPs deposit LP tokens through Convex to chase boosted CRV emissions and fees without personally managing long lockups—Convex pools voting power to optimize boosts across pools (mechanics are Curve-governance-dependent).

CVX accrues value from protocol fees and incentive design; participants historically interacted via vlCVX-style locking to vote on gauge weights and earn bribes—exact live programs should be read on current docs. Convex is “DeFi on DeFi”: smart-contract stack risk stacks with Curve and stablecoin/LST peg risk in underlying pools.

If Curve emissions or governance rules change, Convex strategies reprice quickly—this is advanced farmer tooling, not passive index exposure.

Key Facts & Snapshot

• Symbol: CVX
• CoinGecko id: convex-finance
• Market cap rank (CoinGecko): #199
• Categories: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Yield Farming, Yield Aggregator, Ethereum Ecosystem, Metagovernance, Curve Ecosystem, Yield Optimizer, Governance
• Circulating supply (snapshot): 89,915,543
• Total supply (snapshot): 99,961,773
• Max supply (snapshot): 100,000,000
• All-time high (USD, CoinGecko): $60.09 (Jan 1, 2022)
• All-time low (USD, CoinGecko): $1.36 (Oct 10, 2025)

Market (USD snapshot)

• Market cap (USD, snapshot): $158.62M
• 24h volume (USD, snapshot): $5.13M
• Fully diluted valuation (USD, snapshot): $176.35M
• 24h price change (snapshot): -1.35%

Community & code (CoinGecko)

• Telegram members (CoinGecko): 1,099
• GitHub stars (main repo, CoinGecko): 182
• GitHub forks (main repo, CoinGecko): 95

Contract addresses (by platform)

• ethereum: 0x4e3fbd56cd56c3e72c1403e103b45db9da5b9d2b

Official & Community Links

• Official website
• Block explorer / chain info
• Telegram

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