Andre Cronje, the developer of yearn.finance, talks about all things DeFi and the past, present, and future of yEarn. In this episode, he discusses:   <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">what Yearn Finance is, and what led him to develop it and eventually open it to the public</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">his history and background, leading up to the development of Yearn</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the processes and mechanisms involved in yEarn v1 and yEarn v2</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">why he decided to do a "fair launch" of the YFI token, despite being in debt as a result of building Yearn</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">why he felt that a Decrypt article about him in August was a "horrible hatchet job"</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">why he disagrees with what he sees as the current anti-VC narrative</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">his thoughts on the phenomenal rise in YFI's price and why the price of a YFI token still doesn't matter</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how and why he decided governance participation would be a requirement for earning tokens in the Balancer/yCurve/YFI pool</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the governance processes in Yearn and his thoughts on whether or not a Compound-style form of governance would be better</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how he might mitigate whales dominating the vote</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">what he means by "I test in prod" and how people have misinterpreted his meaning</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">why he briefly walked away from DeFi</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">whether he agrees that YFI could be a new structure to replace existing traditional business structures</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">his response to the allegations by XAR Network</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">whether he would consider moving Yearn to another blockchain</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">his vision for what Yearn can become</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">and how much YFI he currently owns personally</li> </ul>   Thank you to our sponsors!  Crypto.com: <a href= "http://crypto.com/">http://crypto.com</a> Gods Unchained: <a href= "https://playgu.co/unchainedpod">https://playgu.co/unchainedpod</a>   Episode links:  Andre Cronje: <a href= "https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech">https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech</a> Yearn Finance: <a href= "https://yearn.finance/">https://yearn.finance</a> <a href="https://docs.yearn.finance/">https://docs.yearn.finance</a>   CoinDesk on Yearn: <a href= "https://www.coindesk.com/what-is-yearn-finance-yfi-defi-ethereum"> https://www.coindesk.com/what-is-yearn-finance-yfi-defi-ethereum</a>   The Block report on yEarn Finance: <a href= "https://www.theblockcrypto.com/genesis/75189/defis-yield-aggregator-dao-yearn-finance"> https://www.theblockcrypto.com/genesis/75189/defis-yield-aggregator-dao-yearn-finance</a>   Post introducing $YFI: <a href= "https://medium.com/iearn/earning-yfi-y-curve-fi-53b5fd347f0f"> https://medium.com/iearn/earning-yfi-y-curve-fi-53b5fd347f0f</a>   Delegated vaults: <a href="https://medium.com/iearn/delegated-vaults-explained-fa81f1c3fce2"> https://medium.com/iearn/delegated-vaults-explained-fa81f1c3fce2</a> V2: <a href= "https://medium.com/iearn/yearn-finance-v2-af2c6a6a3613"> https://medium.com/iearn/yearn-finance-v2-af2c6a6a3613</a>   Delphi Digital report on yETH yVault: <a href= "https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/yeth-now-do-you-understand/"> https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/yeth-now-do-you-understand/</a>   yETH collateralization ratio: <a href= "https://defiexplore.com/cdp/13972">https://defiexplore.com/cdp/13972</a>   Tony Sheng newsletter: <a href= "https://tonysheng.substack.com/p/yfi-ponzinomics">https://tonysheng.substack.com/p/yfi-ponzinomics</a>   Yearn Governance: <a href="https://medium.com/iearn/yearn-governance-forum-7b7c9d0300ac"> https://medium.com/iearn/yearn-governance-forum-7b7c9d0300ac</a>   yInsure Finance: <a href= "https://medium.com/iearn/yinsure-finance-a-new-insurance-primitive-77d5d4217896"> https://medium.com/iearn/yinsure-finance-a-new-insurance-primitive-77d5d4217896</a>   Delegated funding DAO vaults: <a href= "https://medium.com/iearn/delegated-funding-dao-vaults-7ab05a63d7ba"> https://medium.com/iearn/delegated-funding-dao-vaults-7ab05a63d7ba</a>    Siege Rhino question about governance: <a href= "https://twitter.com/SiegeRhino2/status/1303415750238101504?s=20"> https://twitter.com/SiegeRhino2/status/1303415750238101504?s=20</a>   Andre’s “Building in DeFi Sucks” post: <a href= "https://medium.com/@andre_54855/building-in-defi-sucks-b8fdfda0ef58?source=---------17------------------"> https://medium.com/@andre_54855/building-in-defi-sucks-b8fdfda0ef58?source=---------17------------------</a> Andre quits in February: <a href= "https://decrypt.co/21068/founder-of-promising-defi-project-abandons-the-toxic-cryptosphere"> https://decrypt.co/21068/founder-of-promising-defi-project-abandons-the-toxic-cryptosphere</a> Andre close to quitting in August: <a href= "https://decrypt.co/37995/exclusive-yfi-andre-cronje-broke-quitting-defi"> https://decrypt.co/37995/exclusive-yfi-andre-cronje-broke-quitting-defi</a>   What Andre wishes he had known before building Ethereum dapps: <a href= "https://medium.com/iearn/things-i-wish-i-knew-before-building-ethereum-defi-dapps-cd6bf0f07a16"> https://medium.com/iearn/things-i-wish-i-knew-before-building-ethereum-defi-dapps-cd6bf0f07a16</a>

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Andre Cronje of Yearn Finance on YFI and the Fair Launch: 'I'm Lazy' - Ep.190

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