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<p class="is-style-lead">Decentralized finance project Yield Protocol said all borrowing and lending operations would end by Dec. 31, 2023.</p> 
<p>Yield Protocol, which raised $10 million backed by Paradigm, Framework Ventures, and other venture capitalists, is the latest defi project to shutdown.</p> 
<p>In <a href="https://twitter.com/yield/status/1709232386993496272" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">an X thread</a> on Tuesday, Oct. 3, Yield Protocol said the decision was made due to the lack of “sustainable demand for fixed-rate borrowing” as well as the “increasingly challenging regulatory environment in the U.S., Europe, and the U.K.” The project emphasized it plans to support users until Dec. 31, 2023. After the deadline, the project will offer only limited support for withdrawals.</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">We’ve made the tough decision to wind down the Yield Protocol. The March 2024 fixed rate series will not be launched. Only the December 2023 series remains active for borrowing and lending. All borrowing and lending will end by December 31st. <a href="https://t.co/oHnCGgeP13" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/oHnCGgeP13</a></p>— Yield Protocol (@yield) <a href="https://twitter.com/yield/status/1709232386993496272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">October 3, 2023</a> 
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<p>Founded in 2020, Yield Protocol offered fixed-term and fixed-rate lending services on the decentralized finance market. </p> 
<p>In August 2020, Allan Niemerg, founder of Yield Protocol, praised in a blog post the project’s perspective, saying defi “would be greatly improved with fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending.”</p> 
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<p>A year later, in June 2021, Yield Protocol <a href="https://medium.com/yield-protocol/yield-closes-10mm-funding-round-led-by-paradigm-7e456e72b5e3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">raised $10 million</a> in Series A funding round led by Paradigm. </p> 
<p>The startup was also backed by Framework Ventures, Symbolic Capital Partners, CMS Holdings, Variant, and the DeFi Alliance. </p> 
<p>At the time, Niemerg said the team believes that “fixed-rate borrowing will be essential for DeFi to onboard its first billion users.”</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Euler has been hacked, with unknown damage. Our mainnet liquidity pools are built on top of Euler, with base assets deposited in Euler. We have disabled our app, paused mainnet borrowing, and we are investigating.</p>— Yield Protocol (@yield) <a href="https://twitter.com/yield/status/1635265757646032896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">March 13, 2023</a> 
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<p>Yield Protocol was among defi protocols that suffered $1.5 million in losses after the non-custodial lending protocol Euler Finance was hacked in March 2023. </p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Euler has been hacked, with unknown damage. Our mainnet liquidity pools are built on top of Euler, with base assets deposited in Euler. We have disabled our app, paused mainnet borrowing, and we are investigating.</p>— Yield Protocol (@yield) <a href="https://twitter.com/yield/status/1635265757646032896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">March 13, 2023</a> 
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<p>However, the protocol full recovered from the incident a few months later, in June 2023.</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Protocol restoration on Mainnet is complete! We have now fully recovered the protocol from the Euler hack and the liquidity provider bug.<br><br>LPs are once again earning fees. To withdraw, LPs need to first upgrade their strategy tokens. View instructions here <a href="https://t.co/wVbPXrJKsy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/wVbPXrJKsy</a></p>— Yield Protocol (@yield) <a href="https://twitter.com/yield/status/1673690015073796099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">June 27, 2023</a> 
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