Yearn is a DeFi yield aggregator protocol governed by its community through the Yearn DAO, founded by Andre Cronje. Yearn's Twitter Score is 377 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #647 (top 0.5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Yearn was built around a fair-launch model in which its YFI token was distributed with no fundraising round and no valuation placed on the protocol at initial release. Governance is controlled by YFI token holders through offchain proposals, with execution handled by a 9-member multisig requiring 6 of 9 signatures. The protocol has experienced several security incidents over its history, including exploits in February 2021 and April 2023 each resulting in losses of approximately $11 million, and a further incident in December 2025 resulting in a loss of approximately $300,000.
Yearn maintains an active auditing program across its contract versions. Current v3 core contracts have been audited by StateMind, ChainSecurity, and yAudit, while legacy v2 and factory vault contracts were audited by MixBytes, ChainSecurity, and Trail of Bits. Yearn has published 5,022 posts and has 207,573 followers as of August 2026 on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 434 accounts, with 1,198 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Yearn include 1,586 founders, 433 angel investors, 616 influencers and 44 VCs. Among them are Toly, Ansem, Laura Shin, Stani, Kyle Samani and Fred Ehrsam.