Meet the Yield Farmers Plowing Cryptocurrency’s Riskiest Trend

Since February 2020, we have seen a steady growth of the blockchain space and, most significantly, decentralized finance. While DeFi isn’t entirely new, the network’s growth has been more aggressive this year than it has ever been. The distribution of COMP governance token and the introduction of yield farming protocols around June this year has made DeFi the most engaging conversation in the blockchain space, no doubt. DeFi Yield Protocol (DYP) Decentralized finance has only grown this much because of the control and ease it offers users. By allowing users to utilize....

A new Coingecko survey has found that a large number of yield farmers do not know how to read smart contracts despite claiming they understand the risks that come with such investments. According to the survey, which polled 1,347 people, around 40% of decentralized finance (defi) users cannot comprehend the smart contracts they use for farming. Some 33%, it says, have never heard of ‘impermanent loss’ – a temporary loss of funds that occurs when providing liquidity. This “implies that they (farmers) don’t know their real return on investment (ROI) and are....

Yield farming is one of crypto’s 2020 buzzwords, but what does it mean? Here’s a beginner’s guide explaining the basics — and the complex. What are the key challenges and opportunities for yield farming?Most DeFi applications are currently based on the Ethereum blockchain, creating some critical challenges for yield farmers. Ahead of the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade, the network is struggling with a lack of scalability. As yield farming becomes more popular, more transactions clog up the Ethereum network, leading to slow confirmation times and spiraling transaction fees. This situation has led to....

A CoinGecko survey has found that the majority of yield farmers do not understand the smart contracts underpinning the DeFi protocols they use. The majority of yield farmers do not understand how to read the potentially risky smart contracts that underpin the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem — but that hasn’t stopped them making huge profits.Crypto market data aggregator CoinGecko has published its findings from a survey of 1,347 of its users about yield farming, finding that 93% of respondents claim to have reaped a financial return of at least 500%.However around half of users are....

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