Overview

A Curve pool is a smart contract that implements the StableSwap invariant and thereby allows for the exchange of two or more tokens.

More broadly, Curve pools can be split into three categories:

  1. Plain Pools: A pool where two or more stablecoins are paired against each other.
  2. Lending Pools: A pool where two or more wrapped tokens (e.g. cDAI) are paired against one another, while the underlying is lent out on some other protocol.
  3. Metapools: A pool where a stablecoin is paired against the LP token from another pool.

Source code for Curve pools may be viewed on GitHub.

Warning

The API for plain, lending and metapools applies to all pools that are implemented based on pool templates. When interacting with older Curve pools, there may be differences in terms of visibility, gas efficiency and/or variable naming. Furthermore, note that older contracts use vyper 0.1.x... and that the getters generated for public arrays changed between 0.1.x and 0.2.x to accept uint256 instead of int128 in order to handle the lookups.

Please do not assume for a Curve pool to implement the API outlined in this section but verify this before interacting with a pool contract.

For information on code style please refer to the official style guide.