YieldShield
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    • About YieldShield
    • Overview Diagram
    • What is Yield Farming?
    • The Benefits
    • Fee Structure
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  1. Overview

What is Yield Farming?

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Yield farming is the practice of staking or lending crypto assets in order to generate high returns or rewards in the form of additional cryptocurrency.

This innovative yet risky and volatile application of has skyrocketed in popularity recently thanks to further innovations like liquidity mining. Yield farming is currently the biggest growth driver of the still-nascent , helping it to a market cap.

In short, yield farming protocols incentivise (LP) to stake or lock up their crypto assets in a -based liquidity pool. These incentives can be a percentage of transaction fees, interest from lenders, or a governance token (see liquidity mining below). These returns are expressed as an annual percentage yield (APY). As more investors add funds to the related liquidity pool, the value of the issued returns decrease accordingly.

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decentralized finance (DeFi)
DeFi sector
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liquidity providers
smart contract
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