Farm Like It’s 2199: Safer, Sustainable Growth in DeFi
Yield Farmer’s Almanac № 001
The year is 2199. Money is digital, financial sovereignty is feasible, and safe wealth generation is accessible to people around the globe. No — scratch that. These things are all possible today. Thanks to innovations in blockchain technology and decentralized finance (“DeFi”) in particular, the economic freedom enabled by safe, sustainable yield is attainable here and now.
With unprecedented capital efficiency, accessibility, and transparency, DeFi has already reshaped the landscape of financial possibility. Today, smart contracts manage over $100 billion in assets, and ongoing iteration heralds ever-advancing frontiers.
Building tomorrow demands future-ready finance, and the right tools for the job have already arrived.
Anyone is free to reap the rewards, so how can you earn your share?
Answer: You Farm Like It’s 2199.
Farm Like its 2199 is an initiative from the Reserve ecosystem to help map, settle, and lay down lasting roots in the unfolding terrain of DeFi and yield farming. Throughout this summer, you can expect:
- Regular entries in the Yield Farmer’s Almanac (this blog). Posts will include deep dives into opportunities and risks presented by top DeFi strategies while highlighting safe, sustainable, transparent yield
- Analysis and commentary on major trends in DeFi and crypto, including investment and development trends, along with macroeconomic and regulatory context
- Onchain experiences including incentivized quests related to Reserve ecosystem initiatives and integrations, commemorative NFT mints
- Online and IRL meetups including 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) Spaces with ecosystem collaborators and Reserve core team members
Reserve’s mission is to increase access to stable, long-lasting, inflation-resistant currency. The time horizon for success in this mission is not months or years — it’s centuries.
The endgame that drives the design of the protocol itself and the RTokens deployed on top of it is to one day power stable, globally accepted asset-backed currencies independent of fiat money.
This future reality is simultaneously a distant dream and a present possibility. The good fight against inflation rages today for the sake of those living (and farming!) in 2199.
Earning safer yields in DeFi
Throughout the unfolding “DeFi Summer,” the Yield Farmer’s Almanac will serve as an invaluable resource for discerning yield farmers open to exploring new products like stablecoins, lending, leverage, and all the ways they tie together throughout the DeFi ecosystem.
Can’t wait to get started? Head to http://reserve.org/earn for real-time updates on yield opportunities.
(Go ahead and bookmark that link now — you’ll want to come back to it often.)
The “Earn” page of the Reserve Register app is the hub for the myriad yield opportunities available for stablecoins and ETH across the Reserve ecosystem’s many integrations and networks.
Ready to farm like it’s 2199?
The harvest has only just begun — follow along all summer long for safe, sustainable growth opportunities:
- Follow Reserve on Medium to be notified about new issues of the Yield Farmer’s Almanac
- Follow Reserve on 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) and Farcaster
- Join the Reserve Discord server for conversations with like-minded yield farming enthusiasts
Sow the seeds of your future. Farm like it’s 2199. 🧑🌾🤝🧑🚀
About Reserve
Reserve is a free, permissionless platform to build, deploy, and govern asset-backed currencies called “RTokens.” RTokens are always backed 1:1, are overcollateralized, and allow permissionless minting and redeeming onchain by users without the need for middlemen. Overcollateralization is provided by RSR governance token stakers. Each RToken can have an entirely different governance system and is governed separately by ecosystem stakers. Thus far the Reserve protocol has launched on Ethereum mainnet, Base, and Arbitrum One, and completed its ninth audit in April 2024.
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