yearn.finance: Yearn is a service that moves users' crypto deposits between other DeFi platforms to try to earn a return. Its pages make no dated promises we could check. It trades at $2,136, #321 of all coins by size, 98% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #2 of 17 yield aggregators. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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2 of 4
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: yield aggregator
- ✓Real backingBacking: backed by Blockchain Capital; trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- –Room to growWorth at least four times less than the biggest coin doing the same job, so the gap is real, not a guess.
Backed by Blockchain Capital
- Origin18 July 2020about about 6 yearsFrom ZA (CoinGecko)yearn.fi, GitHub
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingBlockchain CapitalInvestor tags from CoinGeckoListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet2 headlines last month70,308 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Yield Aggregator ($4.54M). To match the leader, Convex Finance ($184.45M), its price would need to rise 139%, to about $5,113.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- Only 2 headlines named it last month
What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
What is next, and when?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Yield aggregator
17 coins tagged Yield Aggregator, worth $368.95M together. #2 of 17 by worth.
Yield Aggregator: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
yearn.finance$77.06Mthis coin−2.8%98% outnone dated
Convex Finance$184.45M2.4× bigger, +$107.38M−3.6%, gap −0.893% outnone dated
Tori Ecosystem Vault$44.55M1.7× smaller, −$32.51M+0.0%, gap +2.8no maxno record
Bella Protocol$9.38M8.2× smaller, −$67.68M−2.9%, gap −0.180% outno record
Badger$7.38M10.4× smaller, −$69.69M+3.5%, gap +6.293% outno record
Stake DAO$7.1M10.9× smaller, −$69.96M−1.7%, gap +1.168% outno record
CateCoin$6.47M11.9× smaller, −$70.6M56% outno record
Inverse Finance$6.13M12.6× smaller, −$70.94M−2.5%, gap +0.3no maxno record
Yield Aggregator: this coin next to Convex Finance, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- yearn.finance says
- Yearn is a service that moves users' crypto deposits between other DeFi platforms to try to earn a return.
- Convex Finance says
- Convex lets users deposit liquidity from other platforms and earn a boosted share of the rewards.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Yearn is a service that moves users' crypto deposits between other DeFi platforms to try to earn a return.
Its listing puts it this way: Yearn Finance is a suite of products in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) that provides lending aggregation, yield generation, and insurance on the Ethereum blockchain. The protocol is maintained by various independent developers and is governed by YFI holders.
Problem it says it solves: yield aggregator. 17 coins are working on it and together they are worth $368,948,482. This coin is 21% of that.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance, Binance US
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $90,787 on 11 May 2021. Today is 2% of that.
98%
of all YFI that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 36.08K coins.
2% (590 coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. That is a small share. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
A vote, nothing more by itself
Holders vote on how the project runs. The coin does not pay for anything on its own.
- A vote on how the project is run
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 36.08K of 36.67K.
- 590coins still to be released, 2% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- of its all-time high of $90,787 on 11 May 2021. That is −97.6% from the top.
- #321by market cap, $77,064,063.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
2 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Hack2
- Infinite-Mint Vulnerability Behind Yearn Finance's $2.8M yETH Exploit, Nansen Confirms
- Infinite-Mint Vulnerability Behind Yearn Finance's $2.8M yETH Exploit, Nansen Confirms
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Yearn is a service that moves users' crypto deposits between other DeFi platforms to try to earn a return.
“Yearn is DeFi's Yield Aggregator”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-10
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
No dated or committed promises have been recorded yet.
No public code repository is listed in this record.
The project's homepage page last changed on 14 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.