November 17, 2020

Red from Harvest Finance: Scaling A Community To Match $1B In TVL At Its Height

43 minutes

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Red, a community manager at Harvest Finance.

Harvest automatically farms the highest yields in DeFi. We chatted reaching $1B in TVL at its height, scaling a community over time, competition between aggregators, the recent hack and more! 🧑‍🌾

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Show Notes

(1:31) – (First Question) Red or Redemption

(2:05) – Harvest Finance, an automated Yield Farming platform

(5:00) – Harvest’s Backend Walkthrough

(6:22) – A road from 0 to 500 million in deposits

(12:21) – What makes Harvest so appealing / Harvest’s Target

(16:01) – Insights about technical debt with crypto projects

(20:18) – Incentivize people to create vs automatic Yield Farming passive investors

(36:30) – What projects would Red like to have in Harvest

(26:00) – What Farmholders are receiving / Farm Token

(31:35) – What is Grain Token / What the model is for (*)

(36:30) – Insights about Hacking risks

(40:50) – Does Red know who the Hacker is (*)

(*) questions posed by our Delphi Institutional Chat members

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