# Balancer proposes moving Rocket Pool alliance treatment to its v3 liquidity pool

> The proposal would remove the v2 rETH/WETH pool and add the v3 rETH/waEthWETH pool to the special Rocket Pool alliance revenue-sharing treatment.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/2025-12-19-rocket-pool-balancer-alliance-v3-pool-proposal/
- Type: Economic change
- Stage: Proposed
- Evidence: developing
- Materiality: watch
- Event date: 2025-12-19
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-22 (first published 2026-08-22)
- Advisor-relevant: no
- Affects: Rocket Pool (protocol)

Developing. Some claims here are not yet confirmed; they are listed apart from the confirmed facts. A new version replaces this one when the primary evidence changes.

## What happened

Balancer governance received BIP-896, proposing an alliance addendum after Rocket Pool moved its primary Ethereum liquidity from a deprecated Balancer v2 pool to a Balancer v3 pool.

## What changed

The proposal would remove the v2 rETH/WETH pool and add the v3 rETH/waEthWETH pool to the special Rocket Pool alliance revenue-sharing treatment.

## What did not change

The candidate does not establish that the proposal passed or executed, that incentives became active, or that rETH redemption and Rocket Pool protocol controls changed.

## Confirmed

- The proposal identifies the v2 rETH/WETH pool at 0x1e19cf2d73a72ef1332c882f20534b6519be0276 for removal.
- It identifies the v3 rETH/waEthWETH pool at 0x1ea5870f7C037930CE1d5d8d9317c670e89e13E3 for addition.
- The proposed incentive token remains RPL.
- The proposal states that Rocket Pool had migrated its primary liquidity pool to Balancer v3.

## Still open

- The Snapshot candidate does not establish the final vote result or execution status.
- The resulting incentive amount, duration, and realized effect on rETH liquidity are not stated.
- The candidate references a prior security-driven v2 deprecation but is insufficient to establish that separate incident's cause or scope.

## What it means for an advisor

- Monitor whether alliance treatment becomes operative and whether liquidity migrates successfully to the named v3 pool.
- Reassess executable rETH secondary-market depth after migration rather than inferring liquidity from governance approval.
- The proposal does not fire Rocket Pool's existing discount, operator-count, redemption, or protocol-revenue kill criteria.

## Sources

1. [BIP-896: Rocket Pool Balancer Alliance Addendum](https://snapshot.org/#/balancer.eth/proposal/0x2aaa6c1df567752f1be41c61a523632871228ed1a8712e3ea0660d3af6ee5cf4) · Balancer governance · 2025-12-19


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