PANews reported on December 15th that, according to Cointelegraph, Curve founder Michael Egorov submitted a proposal to the DAO requesting 17.45 million CRV (approximately $6.6 million) as development funding, to be received by Swiss Stake AG, the company behind Curve. The funds will support a core team of 25 people in developing upgrades for 2026, including Llamalend v2 and on-chain foreign exchange functionality, and releasing all research results as open-source protocols. If the proposal is approved, the company can also use a portion of the CRV for staking gains.