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Yearn launches tool to calculate APY impact of large vault deposits
Yearn built a tool to help users quantify how depositing larger amounts affects the advertised APY of a Yearn vault. Deploying capital to a yield opportunity reduces the APY, and Yearn's strategies already account for this impact whenever vaults shift capital between opportunities.
The tool lets users pick a vault, enter a value, and see the resulting APY impact.
Yearn raises Fluid risk score to Medium over sUSDai and LayerZero concerns
Yearn's risk team upgraded Fluid from a 1.4 (Minimal) to a 2.6 (Medium) risk level, publishing a detailed breakdown of the drivers behind the change.
- The core concern is sUSDai, a synthetic dollar backed by AI-hardware loans issued by USDai. Fluid holds roughly two-thirds of the total sUSDai supply with limited exit liquidity — 24h onchain volume is about 0.2% of market cap and the asset has traded as low as $0.796.
- The concentration was first flagged in April at 19.9%, reached 28.3% in May (prompting a 30% trigger), hit 30.6% on July 6, and now sits at 31.2%.
- sUSDai uses the same LayerZero yield-bearing wrapper pattern as wstUSR, a setup tied to $21M in bad debt on Fluid in March. The sUSDai OAdapter can mint canonical Arbitrum supply, and the 10M/hr limit is outbound-only.
- Collateralization (2.75 → 4.0), Dependencies (2.5 → 4.0) and Provability (1.0 → 2.5) scores all rose, partly because ~37% of lending TVL depends on offchain inputs. Yearn says the full report is public and notes Fluid has responded well since March.
Yearn's yETH StableSwap pool exploited for about $9 million
A numerical bug in Yearn's legacy yETH StableSwap pool allowed an attacker to mint trillions of yETH tokens and drain roughly $9 million in assets; Yearn confirmed V2 and V3 vaults were not affected.
Yearn launches Vaults v3 on Ethereum mainnet
Yearn released its third-generation Vault system on the Ethereum mainnet, featuring automation, composability, and flexibility, with anyone able to deploy strategies and vaults without permission.
Yearn's yUSDT vault exploited for approximately $11.5 million
A misconfiguration in the yUSDT vault's smart contract let an attacker mint excessive yUSDT tokens and drain around $11.54 million; the exploit came from a deprecated iearn contract.
Andre Cronje and Anton Nell announce exit from DeFi
In a tweet, Anton Nell said he and Andre Cronje were closing their chapter of contributing to DeFi/crypto, terminating about 25 apps and services, including advisory roles tied to Yearn Finance.
Yearn Finance's v1 DAI vault exploited, losing $11 million
An attacker exploited a flaw in the v1 yDAI vault using a complex flash-loan transaction, costing the vault about $11.1 million in DAI while netting roughly $2.8 million for the attacker. Deposits into affected v1 vaults were paused.
YFI governance token launched in a fair launch with no premine
All 30,000 YFI tokens were distributed to early protocol users via a surprise yield-farming announcement, with no pre-sale, no team allocation, and no founder allocation for Andre Cronje.
Andre Cronje makes the first code commit for Yearn Finance
Cronje pushed the first commit on what would become Yearn Finance (originally iearn.finance), built to automatically move funds to the highest-yielding lending platforms.