Yearn Finance News

Aave, MakerDAO and Yearn Seek to Show Contrast with Scandal-Plagued CeFi Firms

Factory Vaults To Include Preset Strategies and Reduced Fees

Aave, MakerDAO, Compound and Yearn Seek Partnerships as DeFi Shifts into Next Phase

Foundation Increased Treasury from $3M to $1.5B in a Year

FTM Jumps 20% on News Yearn DeFi Pioneer is Back in the Game

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The Yield Aggregator Trailblazer is Lagging Other DeFi Stalwarts and Ether

The Fresh Approach Could Support All Yield-Bearing Tokens

Andre Cronje's abrupt exit has roiled DeFi but not all are surprised.

Andre Cronje's abrupt exit from DeFi sent the value of his projects downwards.

DeFi 1.0 blue chips such as Uniswap are as influential as ever but their tokens are fading as a new breed emerges.

Two DeFi trailblazers have joined up to create a new project called Solid Swap.

Yearn Finance has soared following a change in its tokenomics.

Doomsday scenarios in DeFi revolve around the strength of stablecoins such as USDC and USDT.

DeFi Pulse's bellwether DeFi Index crossed $100B for first time.

Fantom's FTM token hit an all-time high this week and is a hot new entrant in the elite club of Layer 1 blockchains.

When decentralized exchanges started to take off in 2019, the designs were very simple, but simplicity in these marketplaces might soon be a distant memory. The most successful category of decentralized exchanges are the automated market makers (AMMs), such as Uniswap and Curve. The Cowri Labs team, builders of the Shell Protocol, a small AMM…

The yield aggregator, Yearn Finance announced last night that it has gone live on Fantom and incorporated the blockchain into the new version of its user interface. “The Realm of Multichain beckons. And Yearn has heeded the call,” Vany, a Yearn Discord admin, said in the announcements channel. “Today, we go multichain with the launch…

Incentives work. Or at least they do in terms of wooing DeFi protocols to deploy on other blockchains.  Case in point, Curve Finance, the automated market maker, and Aave, the leading DeFi lending project, have each deployed their offerings on Avalanche as a part of the blockchain’s $180M incentive program called Avalanche Rush.  It’s the…

Everyone is looking for stronger yields in DeFi. Gro is a new yield platform that aims to offer boosted returns on leading stablecoins to users willing to accept some risk. Gro is set to launch liquidity mining shortly for its depositors, which means they will begin receiving its governance token, GRO, based on the funds…

DeFi DAOs have made some serious cash in 2021 — but generally only in their native tokens. Now they’re looking to diversify. Fueled by a combination of rising token prices and an explosion in fee revenues as DeFi continues to attract new users, the decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that act as a management layer for…

The blockchain industry is ready for one of its own to join the U.S. Congress, whether it’s Messari founder Ryan Selkis or someone else. That’s judging by reactions on the floor of Messari’s conference, Mainnet 2021, taking place at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan this week. Yesterday Selkis said he was going to run for…

What’s the answer to make decentralized finance more fun and immersive than its current incarnation of websites and bulletin boards? Apparently it’s community environments reminiscent of video games played on 1990s-era consoles. That at least is the bet DeFi portal Yearn Finance is making with its latest grant to Atlantis World. The company makes two-dimensional,…

This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities in yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to The Defiant and Head of Marketing and Portfolio Support at Fourth Revolution Capital.  Disclaimer: All opinions expressed by DeFi Dad are solely his own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of 4RC…

YFI launched in 2020 as one of the most memorable DeFi protocols ever with its fair launch, tiny token supply and reluctant anti-hero Andre Cronje as a pivotal figure in just doing things differently. Since then $YFI has suffered hacks, merged, purged, grown, shrunk but above all endured as a genuinely decentralized home for those…