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Yield Farming

YEELD FAR-ming

/jiːld ˈfɑːr.mɪŋ/

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Yieldfarming

Dictionary meaning

A DeFi strategy where users lock or lend cryptocurrency assets in liquidity pools or protocols to earn rewards — often paid in the platform's native token — analogous to earning interest but with significantly higher risk.

Examples

Yield farming on the new DeFi platform offered 200% APY but carried high impermanent loss risk.
Many yield farmers lost money when the governance token they earned dropped 90% in value.

Synonyms: liquidity mining, DeFi staking, liquidity provision, APY farming

Pronunciation tips

High APY = high risk. Rewards often come as new tokens that can crash. Key risks: smart contract bugs, impermanent loss, and rug pulls (developers abandoning the project).

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