About the Yearn category

About Yearn

Founded in 2020, Yearn is one of DeFi’s oldest and most respected projects.

Yearn is new to Morpho, but as a curator Yearn has allocated over $6 billion in deposits into various lending strategies through its flagship product Yearn Vaults.

Yearn Site
Yearn Docs
Yearn Security
Yearn Twitter

Security and Ecosystem Contributions

  • Active whitehat participants in SEAL 911 (hack response bot created by samczsun).
  • Creators of yAcademy (audit education), yAudit (security services), and Coordinape (DAO management).
  • Yearn’s work has been referenced by Messari and Ark Invest.
  • Regular presence at major crypto conferences like ETHCC, ETHDenver, and The Stanford Security Summit.
  • Funding support provided to Gitcoin, LexPunk, and Nomic Labs.
  • Yearn contributors have helped develop tools such as Ape-Safe, Apeworx, Allowlist (used by MetaMask), Disperse ($1B+ volume), Vyper, Brownie, Safe, Robowoofy, ERC-4626, Weiroll-py, and yPriceMagic.

Governance

Yearn is maintained by a global team of full-time and part-time contributors and governed by the YFI token.