Yearn Finance optimizes DeFi yield farming through products like Vaults and Earn, automating strategies to maximize user profits while minimizing complexity and gas costs. Governed by YFI token holders, proposals for protocol changes start on the Yearn Finance forum and require over 50% YFI holder approval to pass. The revamped tokenomics introduce a Vote Escrow mechanism for YFI stakers. Founded by Andre Cronje, Yearn Finance did not raise funds or reserve tokens, operating uniquely without private or public funding rounds.
Thirdweb is a development platform that empowers developers to build, launch, and manage Web3 applications across multiple blockchain networks. It offers a suite of tools, including robust software development kits (SDKs), pre-built smart contracts, and user-friendly dashboards, facilitating the seamless integration of decentralized technologies into various applications. This infrastructure supports the creation of blockchain games, non-fungible token (NFT) drops, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and token-gated membership clubs, among other Web3 projects.
Orange Finance is a leading liquidity management protocol, focusing on LPDfi strategies to improve capital efficiency for LPs. It introduces features such as single-asset deposits, auto-rebalancing, and delta hedging to manage impermanent loss and enhance profitability.
Fractal Visions is utilizing the public goods ethos of Optimism with a retroactive rewards mechanism generated by the marketplace fee from sales to attract authentic artists, musicians, and developers to build on the OP stack. Fractal Visions currently doesn't have a formal governance system.
