{"id":27286,"date":"2020-08-14T20:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27286"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:51:16","slug":"vitalik-buterin-earned-a-few-percent-from-yield-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-earned-a-few-percent-from-yield-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin earned a few percent from yield farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin admitted that yield farming did not interest him.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I honestly have not done *any* yield farming at all. I put a few coins into uniswap a long time ago and took them out after earning a few percent on fees but that\u2019s pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1294186505745731584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I haven&#8217;t engaged in yield farming at all. I once moved a few coins to Uniswap and withdrew them, earning a few percent in fees. But that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/u1f987.com\/chto-takoe-dohodnoe-fermerstvo-v-defi-i-kak-na-nem-zarabatyvayut\/<\/p>\n<p>Buterin acknowledged that he cannot be called a &#8216;Chad&#8217; [a user @0xc4ad, who <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/anonymous-developer-releases-curve-native-tokens-without-the-project-teams-knowledge\">provoked<\/a> an unplanned issuance of Curve tokens with a $2.4 million premine]. He &#8216;promoted&#8217; a decentralized messenger Status built on the second-largest cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">(If you want to make friends try talking to people on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethstatus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ethstatus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KI1HWA2VTz\">https:\/\/t.co\/KI1HWA2VTz<\/a>; it\u2019s an ethereum and whisper-based decentralized messenger and actually works quite decently)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1294186509025685505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By mid-August, funds locked in DeFi protocols had for the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/assets-locked-in-the-defi-sector-exceed-5-billion\">exceeded<\/a> $5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Yam protocol token with assets of $600 million <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/yam-defi-protocol-token-with-600m-in-assets-plunges-99-in-24-hours\">plunged<\/a> by 99% in a day.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin admitted that yield farming did not interest him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,200],"class_list":["post-27286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27288,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27286\/revisions\/27288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}