Yearn’s merger with SushiSwap will be the most comprehensive to date
YFI token holders will vote on some aspects of the integration. The flurry of Yearn.finance (YFI) “mergers” continues as the project announces the tightest DeFi integration yet, this time with SushiSwap (SUSHI), the decentralized exchange that began its life as a Uniswap fork.Announced by Yearn founder Andre Cronje on Tuesday, the collaboration involves a variety of synergies between the two ecosystems and other projects launched by Cronje.Like with previous integrations, the two teams will merge development resources and integrate their liquidity pools to increase the total value locked.....
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