Convex Finance (CVX-USD) Research Brief — As of 2026-09-16

What CVX Is

Convex Finance is a DeFi protocol built on Ethereum that sits on top of Curve Finance. It boosts staking yields for CRV stakers and Curve liquidity providers, using CVX as its native fee-earning governance token [10]. Its economic role is essentially to aggregate veCRV voting power and distribute boosted rewards, making it a key piece of the "Curve wars" infrastructure.