Yearn Finance surges 45% as it joins dog pack with WOOFY
Despite Dogecoin retracing from its all-time highs above $0.70, dog tokens continue to attract astonishing levels of popularity, with DeFi “blue-chip” Yearn Finance emerging as arguably the most prominent team seeking to cash in on the canine meme coin craze with the launch of its WOOFY token. But the YFI fans jumping in early may […]
Yearn Finance reveals ‘Coordinape’ decentralized grant distribution platform
Yield vault protocol Yearn Finance has revealed today the details of “Coordinape,” a new platform for distributing the $40,000-per-month Yearn DAO community grants budget — just one initiative in a wider effort to further decentralize Yearn’s governance. Yearn founder Andre Cronje — who said in an interview with Cointelegraph that he no longer takes part […]
Gnosis and Snapshot create tool to bind DeFi governance votes on-chain
Gnosis and Snapshot have collaborated to develop SafeSnap, a product that allows automatically executing successful governance votes on Snapshot. The module, which combines features of Gnosis Safe Multisig and the Snapshot off-chain governance platform, was released on Tuesday. Snapshot is a “governance-as-a-service” provider for a number of decentralized finance projects, including Yearn.finance, SushiSwap, Balancer, Aave, […]
‘Better as friends’: DeFi protocols Yearn and Cover announce cessation of merger
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols Yearn Finance and Cover have announced today the end of a protocol merger process initiated in November last year. The two protocols were initially linked during a spree of a half-dozen Yearn acquisitions, mergers, or collaborations, the exact term depending on the project. The split comes as a surprise to many, […]
Binance Smart Chain 'copykat' project loses $31 million in possible rugpull
At roughly 9 am UTC today Meerkat, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on Binance’s smart contract platform, lost $31 million worth of BNB tokens. While the team initially claimed that they had been the victim of an exploit, they have since deleted all social channels, and due to the nature of the exploit some believe […]
BadgerDAO partners with Yearn.Finance to build sustainable Bitcoin vaults
Today, Bitcoin-on-Ethereum yield vault project BadgerDAO and fellow yield vault platform Yearn.Finance announced a partnership designed to bring Yearn’s sustainable vault expertise to Badger. “Today we’re excited to develop a partnership that will bring our teams together to further accelerate best in class BTC vaults for the industry,” BadgerDAO said in a blog post. “This […]
After Yearn exploit, attacker funds frozen and reimbursement plans developing
Following an exploit last night that cost yield vault project Yearn.finance $11 million in stablecoin DAI, crypto community members from multiple projects have rallied to mitigate the effects, reclaim exploited funds, and reimburse affected users. First reported by the project at 5:09 pm EST, the exploit was a complex arbitration attack on Yearn’s version 1 […]