BadgerDAO partners with Yearn.Finance to build sustainable Bitcoin vaults

BadgerDAO partners with Yearn.Finance to build sustainable Bitcoin vaults

Bitcoin in DeFi gets a promising boost as two major yield vault projects join forces Today, Bitcoin-on-Ethereum yield vault project BadgerDAO and fellow yield vault platform Yearn.Finance announced a partnership designed to bring Yearn’s sustainable vault expertise to Badger. “Today we’re excited to develop a partnership that will bring our teams together to further accelerate best in class BTC vaults for the industry,” BadgerDAO said in a blog post. “This is a step to further secure users funds as we continue to introduce more Yearn developed, maintained and secured vaults to our....


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