Yield Farming
By CoinGecko | Updated on Aug 13, 2021
Yield farming involves putting cryptocurrency into a DeFi protocol to collect interest on trading fees. Liquidity providers can profit by providing liquidity in DeFi protocols like Uniswap, utilizing assets that would otherwise sit idle on an exchange or hot wallet.
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