Balancer community proposal to launch an official fork as the protocol faces an orderly shutdown proposal, migrating existing liquidity, team members, partners, users, and intellectual property to the new protocol, and positioning it as a “Tokenized Stock Exchange” for tokenized stocks and other traditional financial assets on other chains. The proposal suggests that the existing liquidity pools and the Vault will not be paused no later than the second quarter of 2027. The new project plans to obtain approximately 6 million BAL tokens that are not yet in circulation, with a current value of about $690,000 as startup funding. Currently, Balancer TVL is about $57 million; another community proposal calls for gradually closing the protocol and allocating at least about $9 million in Treasury assets to BAL holders.