Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Yield Protocol introduced its choice to close down by the tip of the 12 months as a result of lack of enterprise demand and world regulatory pressures.
Yield Protocol will stop to exist after the tip of its December 2023 collection, which is slated to mature on December 29, 2023. In its announcement detailing the “wind down” operation, Yield Protocol confirmed that the launch of March 2024 mounted charge collection has been canceled. The protocol acknowledged:
“Whereas we expect that the longer term is shiny for DeFi and glued charge markets in DeFi, we felt this choice was vital as a result of there may be at present not sustainable demand for fixed-rate borrowing on Yield Protocol.”
Unfavorable crypto laws in the US, Europe and the UK had been additionally among the challenges that finally led Yield Protocol to close down. Beginning right now, “liquidity suppliers for the *MS (March-September) methods gained’t accrue any additional charges.”
We’ve made the robust choice to wind down the Yield Protocol. The March 2024 mounted charge collection is not going to be launched. Solely the December 2023 collection stays energetic for borrowing and lending. All borrowing and lending will finish by December thirty first. https://t.co/oHnCGgeP13
— Yield Protocol (@yield) October 3, 2023
Lastly, “all borrowing and lending will finish by December thirty first,” two days after the present collection will mature, an official tweet confirmed.
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2023 was witness to quite a few different protocol-level shutdowns, which included the $29 million TVL lending platform Geist Finance and a Discord crypto buying and selling bot None Buying and selling valued at $16.5 million.
In each circumstances, the first cause for his or her shutdown was attributed to an exterior assault. Geist Finance shut down completely as a consequence of losses from a Multichain exploit. None Buying and selling stated it had “misplaced a major quantity of funding” in addition to “crew tokens” essential for its operations.
