The Balancer cryptocurrency is the reward token that fuels the Balancer market maker protocol. The Balancer protocol serves as a liquidity provider and a non-custodial portfolio manager. Unlike other automatic market maker protocols, such as Uniswap, Balancer is designed to provide a general solution that can be customized for a variety of trading pools with different distributions. It uses smart order routing to send trades to trading pools with the best rates available, and rewards traders by paying them a fee for increasing the liquidity of these pools.

The Bakery Token fuels the Bakery Swap ecosystem, which offers liquidity pools for a variety of altcoins. Users can earn BAKE tokens by providing liquidity on Bakery Swap's platform in exchange for a portion of the trading fees generated. Bakery Token holders can also use their tokens to participate in governance voting and to receive transaction fee dividends. Bakery Swap uses a decentralized automated market-making (AMM) protocol that is built on the Binance Smart Chain. It was created by an anonymous group of developers and is governed by a DAO structure.