Injective Launches the World’s First Yield Farming Derivative

Injective will launch the world’s first yield farming derivative. Now anyone can earn chain agnostic yield with zero gas fees and a simple trading interface. Early access users of Solstice V2 will be able to take part in this starting later today.

A Brief Introduction to Yield Farming

Yield farming has witnessed rapid growth in 2020. DeFi Pulse currently estimates that more than $14 Billion is locked into DeFi protocols. These protocols vary in nature from Automated Market Making (AMM) DEXes such as Uniswap to lending optimizers such as Yearn Finance.

On a basic level yield farming involves locking digital assets into a protocol which then earns the owner yield. Normally by adding tokens into a liquidity pool, a user (or “yield farmer”) is effectively able to provide additional liquidity for trades or other functions. Liquidity mining allows yield farmers to earn more tokens in addition to the usual return in exchange for their aid in providing more liquidity.

However, a number of issues such as surging gas fees continue to plague the yield farming sector and have likely hampered growth to an extent. Such high fees and the inherent complexities associated with interacting with DeFi products often make yield farming inaccessible for novice investors.

The Solution: Injective’s Novel Yield Farming Derivative

In order to address these mounting problems within yield farming, Injective community members have devised an entirely new solution that would enable anyone to yield farm without having to face the same common problems highlighted above.

How Injective Yield Farming Derivatives Work

The first yield farming derivative on Solstice V2 will be based on a specific Yearn Finance Vault.

Yearn Finance was developed by technologist Andre Cronje. Put simply, Yearn is a decentralized ecosystem of aggregators that utilizes lending services such as Aave and Compound to optimize token lending. Yearn traditionally works by moving funds to different pools in order to earn users the maximum yield at all times. Yearn vaults are another application of this phenomenon whereby advanced strategies are implemented to drive even higher returns for farmers.

Injective has specifically selected to begin with yield derivatives focused on Yearn since the platform is entirely decentralized and any changes to the ecosystem are always carried out via on-chain proposals and voting. So in this manner, the Yearn and Injective ethos are closely aligned.

The particular derivative formulated will track the performance of $1,000 USDT on Yearn Finance’s USDT3pool. This means that any trader can now have access to the same yield as a farmer on the USDT3pool without actually deploying money or having to directly interface with the protocol itself.

This brings a number of distinct advantages such as not having to pay any gas fees as Injective’s network has zero gas fees. In addition, the UI for injective has been created to resemble typical orderbook models that are familiar to most crypto newcomers.

Lastly, traders on Injective can now take part in chain agnostic yield farming derivatives with leverage which further augments the potential APY. So whether the yield farming pool is on Ethereum, Cosmos, BSC, or Polkadot, a user can effortlessly interact with it on Injective via the yield farming derivatives.

Closing Thoughts

Up until now, yield farming was largely restricted to more experienced crypto enthusiasts and normally included a number of issues that inhibited overall growth.

The Injective community aims to entirely democratize the financial sector. The introduction of yield farming derivatives puts Injective one step closer to this goal by providing a new avenue for anyone to be able to benefit from the innovations in the yield farming industry regardless of their experience level or financial status.

About Injective

Injective is a lightning fast interoperable layer one blockchain optimized for building the premier Web3 finance applications. Injective provides developers with powerful plug-and-play modules for creating unmatched dApps. INJ is the native asset that powers Injective and its rapidly growing ecosystem. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by prominent investors such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.