ABC Labs announces acquisition of 6.5M $sdCRV, giving Reserve Protocol the most voting power of any non-founder entity in the Curve DAO

ABC Labs, a research and development arm closely associated with the Reserve Protocol ecosystem, has announced a strategic acquisition of about 6.5 million sdCRV, Stake DAO’s liquid locked version of Curve’s governance token CRV. The deal is valued at roughly $2.2 million and forms part of a broader $20 million commitment by ABC Labs to the Curve ecosystem. As part of the same move, ABC Labs is also locking 923,000 SDT (Stake DAO tokens) in a four‑year voting escrow, further consolidating its governance influence. This purchase makes the Reserve ecosystem the largest Curve DAO voting power holder among all non‑founder entities, giving it significant weight in directing Curve’s gauge weights and incentive flows. According to coverage of the announcement, ABC Labs’ aim is to secure long‑term governance rights in Curve in order to deepen RToken liquidity on Curve, where existing RToken pools already hold around $25 million in assets primarily on Ethereum mainnet. The new capital is initially targeted at scaling liquidity and incentives on Arbitrum, indicating a strategy to extend Reserve’s influence over Curve incentives across both mainnet and Layer 2 networks via collaborative DeFi governance. By concentrating sdCRV and SDT in this way, Reserve positions itself as a key political actor inside one of DeFi’s major stablecoin and liquidity routing protocols, potentially shaping future emissions, pool support, and cross‑chain liquidity for its RToken products. The move also reflects an ongoing trend of protocol‑aligned entities accumulating governance tokens to secure control over critical DeFi infrastructure and incentive systems. "entities":["ABC Labs","Reserve Protocol","Reserve ecosystem","RToken","Curve","Curve DAO","CRV","sdCRV","Stake DAO","SDT (Stake DAO Token)","Arbitrum"]}`

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