Yearn? DeFi? I think I'm lost…

Searching for 'words that rhyme with turn' and accidentally ended up here? Welcome! You're at the frontier of Decentralised Finance - a new type of financial system built on blockchains and designed to give users better access, transparency and control of their assets.

DeFi offers many opportunities to put your digital assets to work, and earn yield in return - and Yearn was designed to automate this process for you. Less sharp suits and slicked back hair, more cyberspace yield ninjas wielding razor sharp battle tested code katanas.

We can't offer you a phone number with ambient jazz hold music to listen to - but please feel free to hop into our discord if you have any questions, we'd love to chat.

Wtf is a Vault?

In 'traditional finance' (boo, hiss) you can earn yield on your savings by depositing them in a bank - who use the capital for loans and other productive money growing means.

Yearn Vaults are like crypto allocators in cyberspace. You deposit your assets, and Yearn's smart contracts put them to work within the DeFi ecosystem, returning the earned yield back to you.

However, unlike a bank account - none of this takes place behind closed doors (no offence to doors). Decentralised Finance uses public blockchains, meaning you are in control of your assets and can see where they are at all times. Nothing is hidden and everything is auditable by anyone, at any time.

With the advent of v3, Vaults can now be made out of a single strategy for your assets, or a collection of multiple strategies which balance your funds between them. Users now have more control over where they want their funds to go and a wider range of risk appetites. Go you!

Fees

Yearn vaults never have a deposit or withdrawal fee (yay). With Yearn v3, it's up to the strategist(s) who code the strategy to set the performance and management fee, so make sure you check the fees on the Vault you want to deposit into. Butterfly guy, is this due dilligence?

APY

Vaults display a Net APY (or Annual Percentage Yield), which is the average APY of the past month's harvest. For more detailed information on how APYs are calculated, visit our docs.