The native token of the Yearn Finance ecosystem has plummeted by 40% overnight, which led to certain speculations within the community of a potential exit scam. Yearn Finance is among the most popular and prominent DeFi players, and it just recently hinted about an upcoming launch of its platform’s newest version, which questions the exit...Read More
As DeFi hacks continue, the latest protocols to be targeted by exploiters are Aave and Yearn Finance, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. Aave’s version 1 was impacted, while versions 2 and 3 remained unaffected. The oldest version has been frozen since December 2022, and the team behind the lending protocol said it is monitoring...Read More
2022 was not a great year for decentralized finance (DeFi). The industry saw implosion in itself thanks to the unsustainable high yields that eventually caused the model to collapse. But DeFi is far from dead. A similar sentiment was echoed by prominent Web3 developer Andre Cronje, who said he does not believe that high yields...Read More
Yearn Finance, a DeFi protocol providing yield farming, lending aggregation, and other services, launched on another blockchain network – Arbitrium. Arbitrium is the largest Ethereum layer 2 blockchain, with about $3 billion in total value locked. It also has much lower fees, up to 10 times lower than Ethereum’s, the company pointed out. Moreover, popular...Read More
Following the recent attack on the Yearn.Finance protocol, major U.S. dollar stablecoin company Tether froze $1.7 million worth of USDT stolen from the platform. Meanwhile, Bitfinex disclosed that it had made the last loan repayment to Tether. Tether Freeze Raises Centralization Concerns Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino announced the news of the USDT freeze via his...Read More
DeFi has seen a lot of growth and hype over the past year. 2020, in retrospect, had a lasting impact on the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It saw both historic lows and highs with regard to Bitcoin’s valuation, along with gargantuan growth for the DeFi space. In fact, according to data from DeFiPulse, DeFi’s total value locked...Read More
Yearn Finance made waves in the crypto-community after it introduced a new proposal to mint 1000 YFI tokens that will be later distributed among its core developers. The rationale behind the same is to reward developers who have contributed to Yearn Finance’s development and growth selflessly. Proposal: yfi_lit suggests printing 1000 YFI for operations fund...Read More
An exploit has been discovered on yCredit, only a day after the protocol was launched, according to sources. IMPORTANT The yCredit contract is vulnerable to an economic attack that can cause loss of all user funds. If you deposited into the contract using Etherscan or bought yCredit on Sushiswap, withdraw or sell it immediately. I’ll...Read More
Yearn Finance has been actively integrating with multiple DeFi protocols of late, and Cover Protocol is the latest addition to this chain of partnerships. Yearn Founder, Andre Cronje, announced the Yearn and Cover merger earlier today, stating that Cover will become the backstop coverage provider for the Yearn product suite, as well as for DeFi...Read More
Andre Cronje, the brain behind the popular DeFi protocol Yearn Finance and the most expensive cryptocurrency YFI, has unveiled yet another DeFi protocol called Deriswap. Obsessed With Capital Efficiency The project focuses on capital efficiency, an aspect of DeFi that Cronje said he is obsessed with. The YFI creator is set to change the current...Read More
According to a disclosure by Yearn Finance, a flash loan attack vector was discovered by a security researcher recently, before being resolved by Yearn’s security team. A potential vulnerability was mitigated around 1.5 hours after being reported by Wen-Ding Li through Yearn’s security vulnerability disclosure process on 29 October 2020. It was also revealed that...Read More
Andre Cronje, the founder of the popular Yearn Finance protocol and its governance token YFI, deployed another ‘experimental’ contract yesterday. Expectedly, a lot of people bought the token despite Cronje’s warnings, and most of them ended up losing money. One investor, in particular, put in 1000 ETH in the token, and his stash is currently...Read More
Yearn Finance has become the hottest thing in DeFi over the past couple of months when it introduced high yielding liquidity vaults boasting three-figure annual returns. Since then, liquidity has fallen back, and collateral has been shifted to better yielding pools resulting in a slump in earnings. According to Defipulse.com, Yearn liquidity has fallen 26%...Read More
Have you heard about Yearn Finance’s YFI token? It acts as a governance token for its decentralized finance platform. It broke Bitcoin’s record of the all-time high in terms of USD prices. The YFI token attained highs of over $38,000 in August and even peaked above $43,000 in mid-September 2020. Do you know what’s the...Read More
San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase announced today that it would now support Loopring (LRC) and yearn.finance (YFI) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. LRC and FYI were made available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with the exception of New York, USA. The announcement has been made public almost a week after Coinbase...Read More
Bitcoin has taken another swing at the previous 2020 high of $10,500 and currently trades above it. Ethereum nears $400, while the top 10 tokens see a few rotations, including Polkadot and Binance Coin. DeFi tokens are booming again with Yearn.Finance marking a new all-time high of about $44,000. Bitcoin Progresses Steadily The primary cryptocurrency...Read More
The events of the past seven days took a turn for the worst throughout the entire cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin started the week trading at around $11,500 and managed to advance to a peak of around $12,050 a few days later. And that’s when it went downhill. In less than two days, BTC lost around $1,500...Read More
For the longest time, trust has always been missing from the digital asset industry. 2017’s ICO boom, during which innumerable altcoins and shitcoins were shilled, did little to reverse this sentiment in the minds of many. In fact, now, there is a common consensus that suggests that the industry has put the crypto-demons of 2017...Read More
YFI has undoubtedly been the best performing cryptocurrency of the past month in terms of pricing. The governance token of Yearn Finance was announced on July 17th by Andre Cronje and has since taken off in a way no one probably expected. What started as a “0 value” token is currently trading at around $36,000...Read More
More than 1.1 million test Ether (ETH) tokens are now staked by validators on Ethereum 2.0’s Medalla test network. Validator participation is trending at 74 percent, which is well above the 66 percent threshold. The average staking balance of 32 ETH has been maintained by validators, who are now almost 38,000. This comes amidst the...Read More
Bitcoin continues to increase in price slowly and is currently hovering at $11,650. Larger-cap altcoins are in the green as well, as Ethereum’s 4.5% increase has taken ETH to $420. Altcoins On The Move The top ten cryptocurrencies have been recovering since last week’s dumps, and most of them have marked gains in the past...Read More
Bitcoin seems stable after recovering from its drop to $11,100 and trades above $11,500. However, massive gains are evident among lower-cap alts and DeFi tokens, including YFI that doubled BTC’s all-time high. As such, Bitcoin’s dominance over the market has decreased by over 1%. YFI To $40k, Low-Caps Surging It’s no secret that the DeFi...Read More
Yearn Finance is undoubtedly all the rage in the cryptocurrency field right now. Up just shy of 80% in the past 24 hours, it peaked at almost $39,000 on Binance. Now, industry proponents such as the CEO of one of the world’s largest Bitcoin margin trading exchanges are making bold predictions about its price. Arthur...Read More
Yearn Finance, the DeFi protocol that took the entire crypto field by a storm, continues to break new grounds. Its governance token, YFI, suddenly shot up to 77,000 BUSD on Binance in what appears to have been some sort of a mishap. In any case, the cryptocurrency continues to impress as its price already surpassed...Read More
The popular cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has double-down on its DeFi-related endeavors by listing several new assets from the field. Company CEO Jay Hao promised that OKEx will continue to observe and act accordingly to the growing DeFi trend. OKEx Lists 8 DeFi Tokens The Malta-based spot and derivatives cryptocurrency exchange announced the addition of eight...Read More
This week has been quite the ride on the cryptocurrency markets, and, of course, Bitcoin was in the spotlight, at least for a while. The price started at around $11,700 and stayed there for a few days until Monday when we saw a significant move forward as BTC reached about $12,500. The cryptocurrency community was...Read More
Yearn Finance continues to make headlines and to exceed expectations within the field of decentralized finance (DeFi). After becoming the first altcoin after ZEC’s early days of trading to flip Bitcoin’s price convincingly, the protocol achieved yet another milestone today – it has over $1 billion in total value locked within its ecosystem. Yearn Finance...Read More
Bitcoin has further declined to $11,750, while most of the larger-cap altcoins continue to bleed out with Ethereum close to testing $400. Lower-cap alts chart some notable performances in both directions. Bitcoin Dips To $11,750 The primary cryptocurrency attracted the community’s attention a few days ago when it reached a new yearly high of over...Read More
DeFi tokens are leading crypto markets to their highest levels in terms of total market capitalization for over a year. One of the top-performing digital assets at the moment is YFI, as it surges over 70% on the day to reach an all-time high at $12,821. It has become the only cryptocurrency since 2016 to...Read More
