At its initial release, because there were no fundraising nor valuation placed on Yearn Finance, the market did not fully comprehend the value capture and not able to figure out the market value for it.Īs Yearn Finance continued to attract liquidity by allowing people to easily earn and participate in DeFi, YFI token went from $30 to $43,000 within 2 months from its launch. Yearn Finance was launched in July 2020 and its governance token, YFI was released to the community through a fair launch. It is akin to a crypto hedge fund where the aim is to increase the amount of assets that users deposited. End users also do not need to have proficient knowledge of the underlying protocols involved or DeFi, thus the Vaults represent a passive-investing strategy. Vaults benefit users by socializing gas costs, automating the yield generation and rebalancing process, and automatically shifting capital as opportunities arise. Basically, the vault will help users to claim yield farming rewards and sell it for the underlying assets. Yearn Finance debuted the vault feature after its token launch, igniting a frenzy on automated yield farming and is considered the initiator of the category of yield farming aggregator. Later on, it collaborated with Curve Finance to release a yield-bearing USD tokens pool that includes four y-tokens: yDAI, yUSDT, yUSDC and yTUSD, it is named as yUSD. For example, if a user deposits DAI into yearn.finance, the user will receive yDAI token in return, which is a yield-bearing DAI token. The service offered includes major USD tokens such as DAI, USDT, USDC, and TUSD. Funds are shifted between dYdX, AAVE, and Compound automatically as interest rates change between these protocols. It started out as a passion project by Andre Cronje to automate the process of switching capital between lending platforms in search of the best yield offered, as the lending yield is a floating rate rather than fixed rate. The protocol is maintained by various independent developers and is governed by YFI holders. Yearn Finance is a suite of products in Decentralized Finance ( DeFi) that provides lending aggregation, yield generation, and insurance on the Ethereum blockchain.
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