Yearn Finance Newsletter #53
Week Ending January 9th, 2022
Welcome to the 53rd edition of the Yearn Finance Newsletter. Our aim with this newsletter is to keep the Yearn and the wider crypto community informed of the latest news, including product launches, governance changes, and ecosystem updates. If you’re interested in learning more about Yearn Finance, follow our official Twitter and Medium accounts.
Summary
Transparency at Yearn
Yearn Web Updates
Register for the Next Iteration of yAcademyDAO
Yearn Has Received An Additional 1M FTM Grant From the Fantom Foundation
Vaults at Yearn
Ecosystem News
Transparency at Yearn
More transparency. More alpha.
Two new tools from Yearn illuminating the mysterious depths of the rabbit hole are the content aggregator and the vault encyclopedia.
With the content aggregator, you can find all the most important information coming from Yearn. Go to one link for the latest announcements, tweets, newsletters, articles, and quarterly financials from Yearn. You’ll also find unrolled big brain twitter threads from Yearn contributors like tracheopteryx
With the new community-created encyclopedia on Yearn vaults, you can find in-depth information about how yVaults operate and review the actions/strategies these vaults perform.
Once hosted on Medium, the new vault site adds filters, multichain coverage, auto-updating content, and (coming soon) support for multiple languages!
Read more about the tools here. Thanks to @0xMajor, @KoxEvan, and DarkGhosty for their amazing work on the vault encyclopedia.
Yearn Web Updates
In an effort to increase transparency, several contributors to Yearn's web ecosystem have started a newsletter that will collect new features, ongoing issues, and planned updates, in addition to periodic deep-dives on the web tech stack.
Major points from this release include improved UX and speed when switching networks, including a prompt to add Fantom in your wallet if necessary and improved support for Fantom in yearn-exporter
As always, if you have feedback or suggestions for the website, or would like to contribute, reach out on Discord.
Check out the updates here.
Register for the Next Iteration of yAcademyDAO
For the unfamiliar, the yAcademyDAO is a community-driven approach to blockchain security. At Yearn, we take security very seriously and yAcademy is one of our ecosystem initiatives to create sustainable and collaborative blockchain security and ensure that talent is properly utilized.
yAcademy dao is managed by its full-time members and active contributors, with oversight and guidance from the ethereum security alliance members.
Check out the website here. Apply to the yAcademyDAO here.
Yearn Has Received An Additional 1M FTM Grant From the Fantom Foundation
Welcome to 2022, anon. The donations continue.
Yearn has received another grant from the Fantom Foundation
Once again, we don't dump. 208,333 FTM have been donated, with 90%+ to the FTM vault and a proportional donation to other Fantom vaults.
We will continue this with future grants.
Vaults At Yearn
You can read a detailed description of the strategies for all of our active yVaults here.
Ecosystem News
Check out the Yearn feature in the PILLS universe
Learn how ZooDAO uses Yearn to generate yield from NFTs
Read the proposal about a “yMarkt”
Theorycrafting about Andre Cronje’s new AMM and Yearn’s involvement
A new CLI update has been released for Keep3r
Check out Element Finance’s new DAI term utilizing Yearn vaults
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