What Yearn Finance’s ‘Blue Kirby’ Incident Means for Pseudonymity

Yearn.finance’s price has been caught within the throes of an intense downtrend throughout the past week, which came about due to various factors. The weakness seen throughout the aggregated DeFi sector certainly contributed to the decline Yearn.finance’s governance token – called YFI – has seen as of late, but it appears to have been sparked […]

Yearn.finance’s price has seen some turbulence in the weeks following its intense rally to all-time highs of over $40,000. The governance token for the Yearn ecosystem – YFI – has been largely consolidating in the time since, with both buyers and sellers being unable to spark any sustained trend. This may be due to YFI […]

Yearn Finance’s governance token YFI reached a new milestone on Friday as its price crossed over the $50,000-mark for the first time in history. The gains appeared as Grayscale Investments, a New York-based cryptocurrency management firm, registered an LLC for a prospective Yearn Finance Trust. That prompted traders to raise their bids for YFI, given […]

A hacker has made off with $2.8 million after draining $11 million from Yearn Finance’s V1 DAI vault. DeFi protocol Yearn Finance has reported that its V1 yDAI vault was exploited by a hacker to the tune of $11 million on Feb. 5. However, the hacker failed to reap the lion’s share of the heist, with Curve liquidity providers making more from the attack than its mastermind.While the vault lost $11 million in total, Yearn developer “Banteg” tweeted that the hacker had only been able to profit to the tune of $2.8 million. The team has suspended all deposits to its V1 DAI, USDC, USDT, and TUSD....

Yearn.finance’s YFI token has seen some volatility over the past few days and weeks, which has mainly derived from that seen across the entire market. It has been closely mirroring the price action seen by the benchmark cryptocurrency and its other counterparts. Where YFI trends in the mid-term should depend largely on whether or not […]