Yam DAO is a community-governed DeFi protocol and DAO that launched as an experiment in fair farming, governance, and elastic supply. Yam DAO's Twitter Score is 144 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #4,797 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Yam DAO was co-founded by Brock Elmore, Trent Elmore, Clinton Bembry, Dan Elitzer, and Will Price. The protocol launched with no premine, no founder shares, and no VC interests, distributing YAM tokens entirely through staking. Shortly after launch, on August 13, 2020, the team disclosed a critical bug in the YAM rebasing contract that would mint far more YAM than intended to the protocol reserve and render governance quorum impossible, risking treasury funds. In response, tokenholders migrated from YAMv1 through YAMv2 to YAMv3, and the fully functional protocol was released on September 18, 2020.
Yam DAO subsequently evolved its token model when the community voted on December 29, 2020 to disable the rebasing and elastic supply function, fixing the scaling factor at 2.50. YAM now functions as a DAO governance token, and the protocol describes itself as a launchpad for DeFi projects supported by a community-governed treasury. Associated projects include Umbrella, Degenerative. Finance, and Yam DAO Set. Yam DAO was formerly affiliated with PeckShield Inc. The official YAM token contract is 0x0aacfbec6a24756c20d41914f2caba817c0d8521. Yam DAO has published 1,033 posts and has been mentioned by 284 accounts, with 669 total mentions.
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Yam DAO has 22,599 followers as of July 2026 on the platform. The accounts that follow Yam DAO include 468 founders, 161 angel investors, 239 influencers and 13 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Toly, Stani, Chris Burniske, Fred Ehrsam and Kyle Samani.