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He hasn't contributed to Yearn in over a year. Yearn is not shutting down, yearn.finance is very much still alive and has dozens of full time contributors and h

He hasn't contributed to Yearn in over a year. Yearn is not shutting down, yearn.finance is very much still alive and has dozens of full time contributors and hundreds of part timers. Yearn.fi, which is a UI wrapper made by Andre, is though. However, it's open source and can easily be forked and redeployed on a different domain. A lot of these claims should be taken with a grain of salt. Bitcoin's founder famously quit one or two years in. Most of Cronje's creations will survive without him, as much as we hate to see him go.

dogman144 5y ago
It was about 3 years in with a handoff to Gavin Andresen, and decentralization around defi/web3 projects != btc's decentralization.
- mhluongo 5y ago
  Yearn has more contributors than Bitcoin did at that point, tbh. I hate reading things like "Andre invented the fair launch" when, uh, that was clearly Satoshi, but as someone adjacent to Yearn, this isn't some random DeFi project.
  - randomhodler84 5y ago
    Not super fair to compare contributor count then vs now; You could say the same about the Linux kernel or any major open source project of some history. World much bigger now. The kind of BTC contributor then was never about the money either, whereas I would say every ETH project ever (including the eth ico) was a cash grab, divorced from the cypherpunk roots.
    - chrisco255 5y ago
      It's called finance. It's a thing humans engage in, and you need smart contracts to actually enable that sort of activity without a trusted third party. Thanks to DEXes, aggregators, and protocols like ERC20 and ERC721, Ethereum's ecosystem is far less reliant on centralized actors than Bitcoin is.
the_lonely_road 5y ago
Yearn Finance is listed in the article as one of the 25 projects being shit down on April 3rd. Could be a mistake by the journalist of course but do you have anything to back up your assertion that it’s not closing?
- embeng4096 5y ago
  Think you're right, it's a mistake by the journalist. Here's a tweet[0] from Anton Nell, Andre's partner according to the journalist, saying what GP is saying: yearn.fi is shutting down but yearn.finance will continue to operate. [0]: https://twitter.com/AntonNellCrypto/status/1500405475296296961 https://twitter.com/AntonNellCrypto/status/15004054752962969...

dogman144 5y ago

It was about 3 years in with a handoff to Gavin Andresen, and decentralization around defi/web3 projects != btc's decentralization.

mhluongo 5y ago
Yearn has more contributors than Bitcoin did at that point, tbh. I hate reading things like "Andre invented the fair launch" when, uh, that was clearly Satoshi, but as someone adjacent to Yearn, this isn't some random DeFi project.
- randomhodler84 5y ago
  Not super fair to compare contributor count then vs now; You could say the same about the Linux kernel or any major open source project of some history. World much bigger now. The kind of BTC contributor then was never about the money either, whereas I would say every ETH project ever (including the eth ico) was a cash grab, divorced from the cypherpunk roots.
  - chrisco255 5y ago
    It's called finance. It's a thing humans engage in, and you need smart contracts to actually enable that sort of activity without a trusted third party. Thanks to DEXes, aggregators, and protocols like ERC20 and ERC721, Ethereum's ecosystem is far less reliant on centralized actors than Bitcoin is.

the_lonely_road 5y ago

Yearn Finance is listed in the article as one of the 25 projects being shit down on April 3rd. Could be a mistake by the journalist of course but do you have anything to back up your assertion that it’s not closing?

embeng4096 5y ago
Think you're right, it's a mistake by the journalist. Here's a tweet[0] from Anton Nell, Andre's partner according to the journalist, saying what GP is saying: yearn.fi is shutting down but yearn.finance will continue to operate. [0]: https://twitter.com/AntonNellCrypto/status/1500405475296296961 https://twitter.com/AntonNellCrypto/status/15004054752962969...