At YieldNest, every partnership we build amplifies our ability to deliver unmatched DeFi experiences. Each partner has uniquely shaped our journey, strengthened our ecosystem, and helped us empower our community. Today, we celebrate them at the dawn of our TGE.
BNB Chain
BNB Chain — [View Twitter]
BNB Smart Chain is a high-performance blockchain platform designed to enable the development of scalable and user-friendly DApps, particularly in the DeFi space. YieldNest was the pioneer of BNB restaking on BNB Chain with our ynBNB LRT, along with ynBTCk.
Kernel DAO — [View Twitter]
Together with the immense support of Kernel DAO, we introduced ynBNB — the first ever BNB LRT on BNB Chain, as well as ynBTCk — a Bitcoin restaking solution- and ynBNBx — a next-gen LRT unifying restaking and DeFi strategies. Through our bond, we’ll be pioneering even more restaking solutions on BNB Chain and enhancing community yield potential.
THENA — [View Twitter]
THENA’s next-gen liquidity solutions is what made them our go-to DEX for liquidity formation. THENA is redefining capital efficiency in decentralized finance. Together, we partnered on BNB Chain liquidity pools (ynBTCk & ynBNBx), dramatically boosting yield opportunities for our users.
Astherus — [View Twitter]
Astherus is a next-gen multi-asset liquidity hub dedicated to maximizing the utility and real yield of crypto assets. Astherus offers a powerful suite of yield-generating products under AstherusEarn and an innovative on-chain perpetual trading platform, AstherusEX.
Venus — [View Twitter]
Venus Protocol is a leading DeFi platform on BNB Chain, combining Maker’s stablecoin minting and Compound’s money markets. Launched in 2020, it simplifies lending, borrowing, and stablecoin creation, making DeFi more accessible worldwide.
Lista DAO — [View Twitter]
Lista DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization, functions as the leading liquid staking solution for BNB and a Collateralized Debt Position (CDP) protocol where users can borrow our stablecoin, lisUSD, against a variety of collateral options.
PancakeSwap — [View Twitter]
PancakeSwap is a top DEX on BNB Smart Chain, offering low-fee trading, staking, yield farming, and fun features like lotteries and NFTs — all while keeping full control of your assets.
Ethereum & Multichain
Curve — [View Twitter]
Pioneer of the first YieldNest DeFi integration — the ynETH liquidity pool.
A leading decentralized exchange, stablecoin provider, and lending platform on Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains. It’s known for its advanced automated market-makers for stablecoins and volatile assets and it’s unique soft-liquidation system for loans.
Aragon — [View Twitter]
YieldNest leverages Aragon V2’s ERC-721 vote-escrow token model to provide a seamless, user-friendly governance interface for veYND holders. Acting as the front-end hub for YieldNest’s decentralized decision-making, Aragon empowers our community with transparent, collaborative, and intuitive DAO management.
ENSO Network — [View Twitter]
Enso is a developer platform that simplifies DeFi integrations by providing APIs that translate complex DeFi operations into executable calldata. We’ve collaborated on providing YieldNest users with the infrastructure that allows them to swap and stake seamlessly from hundreds of tokens across multiple chains.
Base — [View Twitter]
Base is a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users on-chain. Base is incubated within Coinbase and plans to progressively decentralize in the years ahead.
Lido Finance— [View Twitter]
Lido is the issuer of Ethereum’s leading liquid staking token, with best-in-class security, deepest liquidity, and competitive rewards. stETH is one of the supported assets of ynLSDe and ynETHx.
Frax Finance — [View Twitter]
Fraxtal is a modular L2 rollup with “fractal scaling,” built on the OP Stack for fast, secure, and low-cost Ethereum compatibility. It offers blockspace incentives (Flox), rewarding users and developers for gas spent.
Mantle Network — [View Twitter]
Mantle Network is a Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution that utilizes Optimistic Rollups to enhance transaction efficiency and reduce costs. It’s designed to be compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing developers to easily build and deploy decentralized applications (dApps) on the network.
Pendle — [ View Twitter]
Pendle is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to tokenize and sell future yields. We’ve collaborated recently with them to boost ynBNBx’s DeFi capabilities, but we plan to do a lot more.
Gauntlet — [ View Twitter]
Gauntlet offers Institutional-grade vault strategies for DeFi. Risk managed on systems built by the most vigilant quants in crypto. YieldNest and Gauntlet collaborated on some of the DeFi vaults we offer.
Origin Protocol — [ View Twitter]
Origin Protocol is a suite of complementary DeFi products designed to increase economic opportunity for all. Our collaboration with Origin Protocol, one of the largest staking platforms out there, consists of YieldNest merging with PrimeStaked (Origin’s restaking platform) and the support of OETH for our LRTs.
Spectra — [View Twitter]
Spectra is an EVM-centric protocol for interest rate derivatives with an easy-to-use flagship app. The Spectra protocol is permissionless, meaning its services are entirely open for public use. Anyone can create new markets at will, swap yield derivatives, or become a liquidity provider.
Enzyme — [View Twitter]
Enzyme is a global infrastructure for tokenized finance. Enabling industry leaders to manage on-chain assets, streamline operations, and build innovative financial strategies. We have partnered on the creation of institutional offerings for ynETH.
Across — [View Twitter]
Our collaboration with Across enabled seamless cross-chain restaking for Ethereum assets across various Layer 2 blockchains. Whether your ETH is on Arbitrum, Optimism, or any other Ethereum Layer 2, Across makes restaking into our LRT suite seamless.
Stake DAO — [View Twitter]
One of the first DeFi Integrations we’ve done is with our partners from Stake DAO. By utilizing multiple strategies on their platform, we managed to secure a significant TVL. This led to the evolution of our partnership and us choosing them as the main advanced governance delegator, empowering YieldNest’s governance flexibility for veYND holders.
Convex — [View Twitter]
A platform built to boost rewards for CRV stakers and liquidity providers alike, all in a simple and easy to use interface. Convex aims to simplify staking on Curve, as well as the CRV-locking system with the help of its native fee-earning token: CVX.
Yearn — [View Twitter]
Yearn is a community-driven collective creating top on-chain, decentralized yield products. With no hierarchy, it thrives on contributions and exploration, remaining an ongoing experiment since YFI’s launch.
Alterscope — [View Twitter]
Together, we created advanced AI-driven and secured liquidity pools and lending markets on Euler for ynETH and ynETHx, delivering superior capital efficiency and diversified yield strategies. All powered by DeFAI.
Berachain — [View Twitter]
Berachain is a Layer-1 blockchain that introduces Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) — a novel consensus model where validators must provide liquidity rather than just stake tokens.
Euler — [View Twitter]
Euler’s robust lending and borrowing platform and unparalleled capital efficiency are what made them the obvious choice to set our markets for ynETH and ynETHx together with Alterscope.
Balancer — [View Twitter]
Balancer is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol built on Ethereum with a clear focus on fungible and yield-bearing liquidity. Balancer’s success is intrinsically linked to the success of protocols and products built on the platform.
A41 — [View Twitter]
This collaboration brings together A41’s multichain validation expertise with YieldNest’s next-gen, risk-adjusted strategies, delivering advanced solutions to enhance your DeFi experience. Powered by A41, we’re set to expand our ecosystem, offering diverse, secure, and reliable DeFi strategies to maximize your returns while maintaining industry-leading security and uptime.
Everstake — [View Twitter]
Our collaboration drives superior performance and reliability, ensuring our community benefits from the highest level of operational excellence and security. Together, we’re setting new standards for performance and trust in the DeFi space.
Figment — [View Twitter]
Figment is the leading provider of staking infrastructure. They provide the most comprehensive staking solution for over 700 institutional clients including YieldNest for our ynETH institutional offering.
Paraswap — [View Twitter]
ParaSwap is a DeFi middleware that aggregates liquidity sources into one comprehensive interface and API.
Frens Syndicate [View Twitter]
Frens is a syndicate of Web3 founders, C-level executives, product owners, builders, and VC analysts. Our goal is to collectively discover and invest in outstanding early-stage projects, analyze them together, and make ultra sound money.
Form — [View Twitter]
Our partnership with Form Network brings seamless restaking for $ynETH, integrating YieldNest’s advanced restaking with Form’s Meditations platform. Whether you’re staking on Ethereum or exploring Form’s ecosystem, this collaboration ensures a smooth, rewarding experience across the board.
Hourglass [View Twitter]
Our collaboration with Hourglass brings exclusive Seeds boosts on their Boost platform, integrating YieldNest’s restaking features with Hourglass’ long-term DeFi commitment rewards. Whether you’re staking ynETH or ynETHx, this partnership ensures enhanced rewards and growth opportunities for all users.
Node Monster — [View Twitter]
Our collaboration with Node monster is paving the way for a truly decentralized future. Their high-performance, scalable, and secure node operations align seamlessly with our restaking vision. With this synergy, we ensure unstoppable reliability and enhanced DeFi yields, setting a new standard for decentralized finance.
Aerodrome — [View Twitter]
The central trading and liquidity marketplace on Base. Aerodrome is a decentralized exchange where you can execute low-fee swaps, deposit tokens to earn rewards, and actively participate in the on-chain economy.
Drosera — [View Twitter]
Drosera is pioneering the Security Automation Layer for the EVM, enabling fully customizable, automated incident response for protocol exploits and other risk events.
f(x) Protocol — [View Twitter]
f(x) Protocol 2.0 is a decentralized perpetual trading platform offering Liquidation Protected Leverage on blue-chip crypto assets.
Symbiotic — [View Twitter]
Our partnership with SymbioticFi marks an exciting step in our journey to expand the YieldNest ecosystem. By utilizing Symbiotic’s advanced protocol, we will soon unlock new LRT and DeFi strategies.
Napier — [View Twitter]
Napier is a suite of decentralized financial protocols and products that provide access to open financial services on the the Ethereum Virtual Machine where various entities and individuals contribute to its development and adoption.
Contango — [View Twitter]
Contango builds positions on top of spot and money markets. By aggregating the +$20B liquidity of spot markets and tapping into the +$40B liquidity of money markets, Contango can facilitate large trades with minimal impact on both rates and price.
EigenLayer — [View Twitter]
EigenLayer is a protocol built on Ethereum that introduces Restaking, a new primitive for Web3 builders that provides a “marketplace for trust” bringing together Restakers, Operators, and Autonomous Verifiable Services (AVSs).
Layer Zero — [View Twitter]
LayerZero is a technology that enables applications to move data across blockchains, uniquely supporting censorship-resistant messages and permissionless development through immutable smart contracts. One of the main players in YieldNest’s multichain expansion.
Staking Circle — [View Twitter]
Staking Circle is the largest private ecosystem of leading DeFi & staking individuals, composed of a team of highly skilled professionals, investors, VCs, Liquid Funds, and top-tier media outlets. We’ve collaborated with them further on marketing initiatives and other avenues to help support both ecosystems.
Satori Finance — [View Twitter]
Satori Finance is an innovative decentralized platform dedicated to financial derivatives, seamlessly operating on Ethereum, Plume, Zircuit, ZKsync Era, BNB Chain, Linea, Arbitrum, Base, Scroll, Polygon zkEVM, X Layer, Ton, and Optimism.
Loop — [View Twitter]
Enabled innovative looping mechanisms for ynETH, significantly multiplying user yield opportunities. Our partnership accounted for one of the largest APYs for ETH, hitting four digits.
Other Protocols
Leviathan News — [View Twitter]
The #1 source for crypto and DeFi news and long-term YieldNest partner. Our collaboration led to the airdrop for holders of SQUID LP Tokens on Fraxtal (via Curve or Convex)
Harmonix — [View Twitter]
Harmonix Finance is a DeFi platform that combines advanced hedge fund-grade strategies with native blockchain technology to optimize yield generation and liquidity efficiency.
Curvance — [View Twitter]
Our partnership with Curvance marks an exciting step in our journey to optimize liquidity management across DeFi.
Kyber Network — [View Twitter]
Kyber Network is a multi-chain crypto trading and liquidity hub that connects liquidity from different sources to enable trades at the best rates
Algorand — [View Twitter]
Algorand is an energy-efficient, quantum-secure, single-layer blockchain with instant finality, consistently high throughput, and low fees.
SpaceID — [View Twitter]
SPACE ID is building a universal name service network with a one-stop identity platform to discover, register, trade, manage web3 domains. It also includes a Web3 Name SDK & API for developers across blockchains and provides a multi-chain name service for everyone to easily build and create a web3 identity.
BIMA - [View Twitter]
Bima, as an innovative force, leverages the secure power of the Bitcoin network, reinstating what has already been done at Marker DAO and Prisma finance, but this time in a more unique decentralized technological method.
Pyth — [View Twitter]
Pyth Network is a blockchain-based oracle solution that provides real-time market data, like cryptocurrency prices, to smart contracts on various blockchains, with a focus on high-frequency and low-latency updates from first-party data providers.
Security and Infrastructure Partners
Hypernative — [View Twitter]
Delivers continuous AI and machine learning-driven risk management, safeguarding YieldNest’s ecosystem and LRTs around the clock.
LlamaRisk Risk Team — [View Twitter]
On top of LlamaRisk overseeing our very own Risk Team, they also perate independently to evaluate our protocols, providing audits for our LRT products and ensuring unmatched safety and reliability rigorously.
Immunefi — [View Twitter]
Being the home for our Bug Bounty program, Immunefi provides a reliable way for us to handle security vulnerabilities by reaching out to the wider dev community. An important step to secure even further YieldNest’s smart contracts.
ChainSecurity — [View Twitter]
With their comprehensive audits, ChainSecurity provided their expertise to evaluate the security of YieldNest and our numerous LRTs. Their external observations assisted us in reinforcing our infrastructure integrity.
Zokyo — [View Twitter]
One of our go-to expert auditors who consistently fortify YieldNest’s security. Their vigorous audits helped us maintain the highest trust standards for YieldNest’s protocol and LRTs.
Composable Security — [View Twitter]
They are the creators of the first security standard for smart contracts, SCSVS, with their research supported by a Uniswap Foundation grant. Their articles are highly regarded by leading projects like Morpho Blue and LayerZero. As speakers and mentors, they have contributed to events such as EthCC, ETHGlobal London, Web3 Security Conference, and EthereumZurich. They also created the first comprehensive Security Guide for DApps, a free 100+ page resource. Their team achieved 2x First Place in War Room Games at EthCC 2023 in Paris and EthCC 2024 in Brussels. Previously, they developed an interactive video program for developers that trained over 1,000 individuals.
Shoal Research — [View Twitter]
They specialize in ad hoc research with a focus on deep dives into novel protocols and technical implementations across Web3, DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer applications. Their approach combines both a builder’s perspective and an investment lens, providing actionable insights.
Alea Research — [View Twitter]
Alea Research delivers reliable, consistent, and unbiased crypto research. Specializing in institutional-grade analysis of DeFi ecosystems, protocols, and narratives, we give you the edge to learn faster and invest smarter.
Each partner individually elevated YieldNest’s DeFi ecosystem, deepening our technological innovation, operational efficiency, and market reach.
Thank you!
Every single partnership fuels YieldNest’s mission to redefine DeFi. Together, we are building a brighter decentralized future — thank you for being an essential part of our journey!
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