Yearn Finance - Briefing Document
-- PRE-CALL CHECKLIST ---
General Discovery
About the event
- Project: Yearn Finance
- Guests: Farrah and Weaver
- Topic: Decentralizing finance: A journey from web2 to web3.
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Farrah, [ROLE], Yearn Finance
- Weaver, [ROLE], Yearn Finance
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
- Find one or two things that are unique or interesting about our guest. Little known facts are great! i.e. owns two Shiba Inus in real life so bought a lot of SHIB.
- Describe their crypto journey thus far. i.e. graduated from college in 2016, got their first bitcoin as a graduation gift, fell down the rabbithole of Ethereum, launched a DeFi protocol in 2020.
- How has their crypto journey impacted their decision to join/launch the project they work on today?
- What are some notable achievements that increase their web3 reputation?
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- DeFi
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- yield aggregating optimization
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- allows for yield farming strategies to be performed cheaper together as a community
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- bridging protocols in order to return the most return to its users
- Does it bring a unique vision or approach to solve challenges in web3?
- yes it is a DeFi yield aggregator meant to simply yield farming strategies in order for them to be open to everyone.
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- actively rewarding contributors of their community and delivering on their vision of helping to make yield farming cheaper and simple to use.
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- yearn vaults are complex yield aggregation strategies users can deposit funds into. users receive ytokens in return. these vaults will automagically reallocate funds in the vault for best optimization of yield across any number of different protocols the vault utilizes
- yearn vault strategies are submitted by community members and a portion of the vault strategies profits go to the community member.
- Details of product stemming off high level overview
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- Results of the product so far
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- yearn is currently live and available to use on ethereum mainnet and the fantom network.
- Current and potential use cases.
- Outline steps for a beginner to get started.
- Token economy.
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- Roadmap/future applications
- Technical updates
- Community updates or changes
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
- How will their project(s) contribute to the evolution and adoption of web3?
- What are some web3 projects/tools that the project integrates to create a more robust ecosystem?
Anything else?
- The speaker can add anything else we may have missed during the call that we should discuss before closing the event.
Resources
References
- Relevant project links including discord, website, twitter, podcast, medium, mirror, substack, gitbook, etc.
- Social media details of the guest.
- From discover call on December 1, 2021
- Weaver
- Responsible for growth strategy, marketing.
- Joined the team in 2021.
- Quit day job in May 2021.
- Talked about "geling" with the team, and getting involved.
- Previous job in B2B growth.
- Farrah
- Newer entrant to Yearn.
- Contributor for 2.5 months.
- Engaged core team.
- Previously in big tech at Amazon.
- Responsible for contributor evangelism (onboarding/recruiting)
- Discussed products and work streams.
- Was a skeptic at first.
- Incorporating web2 models to create mature web3 ecosystem.
- What it takes to quit your day job (web2 for web3).
- Staffing through community adoption.
- Sharing common ownership at Yearn.
- Meeting your heroes: Andre Cronje.
- Fang companies: web2 vs web3.
Sources
- List every source used to curative the information in this outline. including blogs, tweets, sources of images, websites, youtube videos, interviews, podcasts, books, etc.