Curve's founder proposed donating $17 million in CRV funds to support the research and development team.

According to ME, on December 15th (UTC+8), Michael Egorov, founder of Curve Finance, proposed at the Curve DAO governance forum to allocate 17.45 million CRV tokens (worth approximately $6.6 million) as funding to support the ecosystem growth, research, and technology development of its parent company, Swiss Stake AG. The funds will support a range of technical and security enhancements to the Curve lending protocol and maintain its team of 25 contributors. Swiss Stake AG's goals for 2026 include launching and expanding a new version of its lending system, Llamalend, creating on-chain foreign exchange, and improving Curve's user interface. If the proposal is approved, Swiss Stake AG can stake a portion of its CRV to generate additional yield, but its IP will be released under an open-source license compatible with the Curve software repository. (Source: ME)