Week Ending January 24, 2021
Welcome to the Yearn Partner Roundup — a weekly newsletter summarizing everything in Yearn‘s partner ecosystems.
🍣 SushiSwap Summary
SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX). Link.
- SushiSwap now on Tokenlon. SushiSwap has been introduced as the fourth liquidity source to the Tokenlon DEX. As part of the integration, 500k LON along with 25k SUSHI will be awarded to the liquidity providers of the LON/USDT pool.
- The story of SushiSwap and Uniswap. A thread unpacking the cultural differences between the two projects and why both ultimately succeeded, despite being direct competitors with virtually identical products.
- The team is looking for Solidity devs. SushiSwap is offering a compensation package that is the best on the market — contact CTO Joseph Delong. …
Week Ending January 17, 2021
Welcome to the Yearn Governance Roundup — a weekly newsletter covering everything in the Yearn Governance pipeline.
Quick Hits
Hi everyone! The Governance Roundup is back, but with a new schedule. I will now be posting Roundups every 2 weeks. This is to keep the content fresh and read worthy.
⚖️ Governance Summary
Make sure you join the governance forum if you want to get involved with these discussions!
Active Votes
🗳️ None this week.
Table of contents
Proposal: Buyback and Build
What a week it has been! Yearn’s governance community is back in the spotlight, and it’s mostly due to this proposal from banteg, lex_node, lehnberg, milkyklim, RyanWatkins, and tracheopteryx on Jan. 13. …
Week Ending January 17, 2021
Welcome to the Yearn Partner Roundup — a weekly newsletter summarizing everything in Yearn‘s partner ecosystems.
🍣 SushiSwap Summary
SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX). Link.
- Joseph Delong to be SushiSwap’s new CTO. Along with Joseph, Boring Crypto, Clearwood, and I’m Software will be joining the team as Core developers following the approval of this proposal. In the words of Doggie: “Welcome to the thunderdome!”
- Sushiswap V2 Single Sided Exposure and Impermanent Loss mitigation. In this post, Andre Cronje discusses the evolution of ySwap and where it stands today. …
Week Ending January 10, 2021
Welcome to the Yearn Partner Roundup — a weekly newsletter summarizing everything in Yearn‘s partner ecosystems.
Welcome to 2021! Sorry for the lack of newsletters over the past few weeks. I’ve been peacefully enjoying the holidays and market action. For the sake of convenience, I’m skipping some of the stuff that happened in my absence.
🍣 SushiSwap Summary
SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX). Link.
- New SushiSwap analytics powered by IntoTheBlock. You can find a breakdown of transactions, fees per liquidity, an IL calculator, and more.
- How BentoBox leverages Subgraphs from Graph Protocol. An article that covers the creation and intention of a Subgraph based on the Subgraph created for BentoBox Lending. …
Week Ending December 20, 2020
Welcome to the Yearn Partner Roundup — a weekly newsletter summarizing everything in Yearn‘s partner ecosystems.
🍣 SushiSwap Summary
SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX). Link.
- Onsen was approved with overwhelming support. Onsen is SushiSwap’s new liquidity mining incentivization program, a replacement of the Menu of the Week initiative intended to bring positive long-term liquidity changes as well as ensure stability of the platform.
- Zerion integrated SushiSwap in their latest release.
From Maki:
- Peckshield / Quantstamp are finishing up the audits for Bento
and we are targeting a release by end of the year. - Integration with GridPlus and Coin98 coming up. …
Week Ending December 13, 2020
Welcome to the Yearn Partner Roundup — a weekly newsletter summarizing everything in Yearn‘s partner ecosystems.
🍣 SushiSwap Summary
SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX). Link.
- SushiSwap volume increased by $1.1B in November. While DEX volume dropped -15.8% across all exchanges, with both Uniswap and Curve impacted the most, SushiSwap’s volume continued to rise.
- Yearn x Sushi — Treasury vote passed. This proposal adds YFI to the SushiSwap treasury with the following allocation: 60% SUSHI, 20% USDC+ DAI, 10% ETH, 5% YFI, 5% BTC (tBTC-renBTC-wBTC).
- Introducing Onsen. Onsen is SushiSwap’s new liquidity mining incentivization program, a replacement of the Menu of the Week initiative intended to bring positive long-term liquidity changes as well as ensure stability of the platform. …
Week Ending December 13, 2020
Welcome to the Yearn Governance Roundup — a weekly newsletter covering everything in the Yearn Governance pipeline.
Quick Hits
- Thread: Ways to contribute to DAOs when you are new to crypto
- Yearn State of the Vaults #11
- Yearn Finance Newsletter #14
⚖️ Governance Summary
Make sure you join the governance forum if you want to get involved with these discussions!
Active Votes
🗳️ None this week.
Table of contents
- Results: Create a YFI Governance Vault
- Yearn Governance and V2 Vaults
- Yearn Quarterly Report
- Bonus: YETI Index Goes Live
Results: Create a YFI Governance Vault
On Dec. 9, the sentiment poll regarding dudesahn’s proposal to create a new governance vault closed. …
Week Ending December 6, 2020
Welcome to the Yearn Partner Roundup — a weekly newsletter summarizing everything in Yearn‘s partner ecosystems.
🍣 SushiSwap Summary
SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX). Link.
- Yearn x Sushi — Treasury vote. This proposal aims to add YFI to the SushiSwap treasury with the following allocation: 60% SUSHI, 20% USDC+ DAI, 10% ETH, 5% YFI, 5% BTC (tBTC-renBTC-wBTC). Discussion here.
- Yearn x Sushi — Permanent Menu proposal passed. This proposal adds
the Keep3r/ETH pair to the Permanent Menu and allocates Yearn 0.2x points for pairs of their choice to make more liquid pairs — if they deem it necessary. - Cover x Sushi — Cover Protection proposal passed. This proposal has two parts that will help build a synergistic relationship between SushiSwap and Cover Protocol: 1) An incentivized COVER-ETH SushiSwap pool. 2) SushiSwap uses an allocation of its treasury to help provide exploit protection to its community. …
Week Ending December 6, 2020
Welcome to the Yearn Governance Roundup — a weekly newsletter covering everything in the Yearn Governance pipeline.
Quick Hits
- YFI is eligible to receive BNT liquidity mining rewards
- Yearn Vaults v0.2.2 “Belka” released
- Yearn State of the Vaults #10
- Yearn Finance Newsletter #13
⚖️ Governance Summary
Make sure you join the governance forum if you want to get involved with these discussions!
Active Votes
🗳️ [Sentiment] Create a YFI Governance Vault: Create a new YFI Governance Vault that deposits YFI into MakerDAO to mint DAI; this DAI is then used to yield farm. Depositors receive governance fees and yield-farming profits. Part of profits would support protocol initiatives. This Governance Vault would replace governance staking. …
The Yearn team hosted an AMA on Nov. 27, 2020 with special guest, Tascha, from Alpha Finance Lab. Questions were asked in the yearn.finance Discord.
Tascha, Alpha Finance Lab:
Will take a few minutes of the Yearn AMA to share with YFI community how you can benefit from the ETH/YFI leveraged liquidity providing pool on Alpha Homora!
Alpha Homora is a leveraged yield-farming and liquidity providing protocol, in which yield farmers and liquidity providers can earn higher yields through taking leveraged positions. On the other hand, ETH holders can also lend their ETH and earn very high lending interest rates (approx. 20% APY) Alpha Homora also enables single-sided liquidity provisioning with their products. This benefits YFI holders as they can act as liquidity providers (LPs) without having ETH. The platform lends the ETH required to the user in order to participate in pools on Uniswap. …
