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The Evolution of yEarn Finance
Disclosure: Delphi Ventures and employees of Delphi Digital hold YFI yEarn Finance was the hottest DeFi...But as the DeFi sector started to cool down following triple digit percentage gains, yEarn’s ability...YFI’s financial value, however, comes from the cash flow it generates via fees....Back to yEarn, a vault that farms UNI would be a milestone.
5 Min
Asset Management
Oct 2020
Leo Cheng: CREAM Listing The Long-Tail Assets for Borrow/Lending, Cream V2 and A Yearn Finance Partnership?
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Leo Cheng of CREAM Finance....to listing the long tail of assets for borrow/lending, plans around Cream V2, and a partnership with Yearn...Finance.
Lending / Borrowing
Dec 2020
The State of Yearn ($YFI)
Yearn’s sustainable liquidity incentives derive from Yearn’s ability to capture the marginal risk-adjusted...This makes Yearn’s moat more defensible....Yearn’s decision to optimize for security makes marginal AUM more likely to flow to Yearn....In this Daily, we break down how we see the State of Yearn ($YFI).
8 Min
Vaults
Nov 2020
Don’t Sleep on Yearn
A project that sits close to many Defi users’ hearts, Yearn Finance, has fallen out of favor in 2021....A Resurgence in Yearn TVL  The stagnation of Yearn’s TVL in the prior months was due to minimal attention...paid to v1 strategies and vaults as Yearn Finance built the core infrastructure for v2.
4 Min
Vaults
Mar 2021
Harvest Finance
Harvest Finance is a yield aggregator that offers DeFi users the ability to access a wide variety of...deposit funds into a vault for a particular asset and strategy, like a USDC vault that farms CRV on Curve Finance...If this sounds eerily similar to yEarn Finance, that’s because it is. yEarn’s token, YFI, was the poster...
6 Min
Vaults
Feb 2021
Frax Finance
Frax Finance is a new algorithmic, partially-collateralized stablecoin protocol that launched towards...In finance, risk and reward is always a spectrum....If you’re interested in learning more about Frax Finance, we recommend listening to the recent podcast...Frax Finance leverages a two-token model to create an algorithmic, partially-collateralized stablecoin...
13 Min
DeFi
Jan 2021
Yearn & Curve Research Report
...report, we’re going to cover two of the most important, yet complex, projects in the DeFi sector – Yearn...While we started this report with a clear focus on Yearn, we soon realized that we couldn’t fully explain...This will serve as part 1 of our series on Yearn and Curve, with additional content, modeling and tooling...
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AMM
Oct 2020
DeFi
Mar 2019
Convex Dominates, yEarn Strengthens, Metaverse Strikes
Convex Finance Owns Largest Piece of CRV Pie Convex Finance continues to dominate the Curve wars as...yEarn’s Enticing P/E yEarn Finance continues to hold itself as the blue-chip yield aggregator, producing...At its current pace, its 30D average annualized revenue is ~$118M. yEarn has recently called for community...
3 Min
Vaults
Nov 2021
PowerPool: The Missing Piece of Yearn’s Ecosystem
Traditional ETFs are limited to holding securities, commodities or financial instruments with almost...In traditional finance, passive shareholders aren’t missing out on much if they don’t exercise their...PowerPool & Yearn Are Already Dating Some may realize that Yearn is actually already in the meta-governance...
10 Min
DeFi
Jan 2021
Orderbook
Mar 2019
The Implications of yEarn’s Acquisition of Pickle on Token Holders
The biggest headline in DeFi this week is the acquisition of Pickle Finance by yEarn Finance....All Pickle jars will become yEarn vaults....This boost to yEarn vault APYs guarantees more capital will flow in, and thus more fees for yEarn. yEarn...yEarn ecosystem.
7 Min
Vaults
Nov 2020
When Convex & Yearn Compete, Curve Wins
Convex and Yearn hold ~20% and ~9%, respectively, of the total veCRV supply....For added context, at the time of writing, CRV APY hovers around 21% on Curve (veCRV), ~87% on Convex Finance...(cvxCRV) and ~42% on Yearn Finance (yveCRV)....Secondly, Yearn actually utilizes CVX for its vault strategies.
4 Min
Vaults
Jun 2021
Revenge of the Yams (Yam Finance)
Remember the madness triggered by Yam Finance?...Degenerative Finance has been launched by Yam Finance in tandem with UMA to develop a number of DeFi...An alternative option is uGas, the first product of the Degenerative Finance arm, uGas....), and 10% YAM Finance treasury.
9 Min
Derivatives
Feb 2021
More Bitcoin Hopium, Yearn Won't Stop, And Polygon DEX Volume
The Market is Ignoring Yearn Yearn Finance’s AUM has hit $5 billion this week after a slight dip in...Yearn is one of the few protocols where TVL is monetizable and not just a proxy for investor/farmer demand...Since Yearn’s strategies primarily target Curve, and thus stablecoins, this might be a sign that investors...
3 Min
DeFi
Jun 2021
USD.AI: Financing the Future of AI Infra
The Flaws of Infrastructure Finance The accelerating growth of AI brings an insatiable demand for computing...There is a long history of financing capacity failing to keep up with hardware demand and acting as a...capital markets and money markets is evident in top AI infrastructure deals like the $7B Blackstone financing...
14 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
Morpho Finance: A Pareto-Efficient Lending Optimizer
...of these deposits were shifted from the underlying markets to Morpho, but several protocols (Sense Finance..., Spool Finance, and Nested Finance) have announced integrations with Morpho....Some of these protocols, like Spool Finance, have replaced Compound entirely with Morpho-Compound.
13 Min
Money Markets
Nov 2022
Level Finance's Success and Sustainability
Introduction  Level Finance is an oracle-based margin and spot trading decentralized exchange (DEX)...Protocol Design Level Finance employs a levered trading system similar to GMX....Source: Level Finance LPs who take on higher risk are rewarded accordingly, with the MLP yielding an...
12 Min
Derivatives
May 2023
Barnbridge Brings Structured Finance to DeFi
But this week, an existing financial primitive that’s finally made its way to DeFi caught my attention...For those who’ve watched The Big Short or followed the 2008 GFC, you probably think CDOs are financial...What they do is effectively cut up exposure to financial instruments into siloed baskets, called a “tranche...
6 Min
DeFi
Oct 2020
Pickle Finance: More Than Just A Meme
Pickle is an early-stage project with numerous risks (financial, technical, competitive)....Between pJars and farms, the protocol holds ~$150M in TLV (17% of Yearn)....from other projects which are incentivizing the creation of automated yield farming strategies, namely yearn...We note it will be extremely difficult, and unlikely, that Pickle beats Yearn.
10 Min
Stablecoins
Sep 2020