Yearn Finance
YieldActive

Yearn Finance

The original DeFi yield optimizer. Less relevant as standalone product. More important as intellectual ancestor every vault curator descends from.

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Brief

Pioneer DeFi yield aggregator that automatically rotates capital across lending protocols and strategies. V3 'Tokenized Strategy' framework lets any person or protocol deploy ERC-4626 compliant single-strategy vaults via immutable proxy pattern, separating risky strategy logic from base 4626 vault logic.

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Snapshot

Key terms and identifiers.

Asset classes
Private credit
Token standards
erc-20, eip-4626
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Connections

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Dependency

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