Compare Curve DEX and Variational on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$1.283B
Curve Finance is an automated market maker optimised for low‑slippage swaps between like‑priced assets such as stablecoins and liquid staking tokens. Its stableswap invariant and meta‑pools keep price impact below 0.05 % even at million‑dollar clip sizes, while veCRV bribing aligns long‑term liquidity incentives. Curve currently handles > $1 billion daily volume across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism and ten other chains.
Variational is an on-chain derivatives infrastructure protocol designed to power the next generation of retail and institutional trading. The protocol enables peer-to-peer trading, clearing, and settlement of perpetual futures, options, and other derivatives through smart contracts, while aggregating liquidity from both on-chain and off-chain sources. Supporting applications such as Omni and Pro, Variational combines request-for-quote execution, deep aggregated liquidity, and fully on-chain settlement to deliver efficient, transparent, and scalable derivatives markets across crypto, equities, commodities, and other asset classes.