Milestone
Ethereum
2020
Compound Launches Yield Farming
COMP distribution sparked the first major yield farming wave, bootstrapping on-chain liquidity and composability playbooks.
Event date: 2020-06-15
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Key Facts
Peak metric$600M+ TVL within weeks
OutcomeDeFi Summer ignition
ChainEthereum
Year2020
Typemilestone
Tags
defi
liquidity
governance
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