Yearn Partner Roundup #2
Week Ending December 20, 2020
Welcome to the Yearn Partner Roundup — a weekly newsletter summarizing everything in Yearn‘s partner ecosystems.
🍣 SushiSwap Summary
SushiSwap is an automated market making (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX). Link.
- Onsen was approved with overwhelming support. Onsen is SushiSwap’s new liquidity mining incentivization program, a replacement of the Menu of the Week initiative intended to bring positive long-term liquidity changes as well as ensure stability of the platform.
- Zerion integrated SushiSwap in their latest release.
From Maki:
🔒 Keep3r Summary
Keep3r Network provides a way for protocols to post ‘jobs’ — or smart contract call requests — to ‘keepers’ — or those willing to perform those tasks. Link.
- Reputation.link and Chainlink Live Q&A. A discussion about the importance of oracle reputation, and dive deep into the implications of the Keep3r and Chainlink partnership.
🍦 CREAM Summary
C.R.E.A.M. Finance is a peer to peer lending and exchange platform on Ethereum and Binance Chain. Link.
- Collateral Factor for KP3R has increased from 0% to 45%. You can find the discussion for this proposal here and the Snapshot page here.
- Leo Cheng on the Delphi Podcast. They discuss how Cream started from forking Compound/Balancer to listing the long tail of assets for borrow/lending, plans around Cream V2, and a partnership with
Yearn.
🥒 Pickle Finance Summary
Pickle Finance makes it easy for you to earn compounding yields on your deposits. Link.
- 0xkoffee77 has joined the Pickle team. He’s a full-stack blockchain developer with 3 years of experience in the space. His Github profile can be found here.
- New $CORN announcements. 1We have purchased and returned 132.9k CORN to StabilizePro for missing them in the initial distribution. larrythecumber has diverted his 2% dev fund $PICKLE emissions to the Treasury for assisting pDAI users.
🛡️ Cover Protocol Summary
A peer-to-peer coverage market. Link.
- Hedge your risks. You can now view your Cover Protocol coverage token balance and shield mining balances on Zapper.
- Nexus Mutual CLAIM & NOCLAIM Balancer pools are live. The reward rate has been set to 1.5x and shield mining for these pools has started.
- Cover Protocol governance is live. The community will now be able to help shape Cover Protocol through proposals and gauge voting. The governance portal can be found here.
- The Arcadia Group shares their Cover audit. Cover has already followed their recommendations and addressed the issues reflected in the audit.
🏛️ Akropolis Summary
Decentralized and autonomous community economies — lending and pensions made simple. Link.
Update from the Akropolis team:
- Working on integration of v1 yEarn Vaults. Updating code base & designs to correspond with yEarn functionality.
- Further work on IOU token for compensation plan with the help of yEarn team.
- Research & work on insurance solution via Cover & Nexus Mutual.
Disclaimer: These updates are non-exhaustive and not meant to be representative of all the happenings in the ecosystems mentioned. The goal of this newsletter is to provide key insights for Yearn community members.
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