The prominent developer and prolific project founder has stepped down from any involvement within the crypto and DeFi area following the inconsistent launch of the Solidly project. 


DeFi creator, Fantom Foundation technical consultant, and Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje has left the localized finance (DeFi) house reeling once deactivating his Twitter account. 

Cronje’s long-time colleague at the Fantom Foundation Anton Nell expressed during a Mar. 6 tweet that each he and Cronje were exploit the crypto house entirely. However, issues have arisen regarding the fate of the roughly twenty five localized apps (dApps) and services they need been operative up to currently. Fantom Opera could be a layer-2 Ethereum scaling answer. 

Among the affected apps and services ar yearn.fi, keep3r.network, multichain.xyz, chainlist.org, bribe.crv.finance, and therefore the new solidly.exchange. 

The community’s reaction to Nell’s announcement has been usually sympathetic, as several perceive that the couple doubtless required a mental break from the vast rigors of their work. different dissatisfied investors haven't been thus kind with their words as token costs and TVL tanks. 

Fantom CEO Michael Kong processed the implications of Cronje’s and Nell’s stepping down. though Cronje was instrumental in introduction several comes, Kong aforesaid in an exceedingly Mar. seven tweet that “these comes aren't closing down development. a number of them are running severally for years.” 

The lead developer at Yearn Finance, Banteg, conjointly chimed in to assure users and investors that Andre’s going was of very little consequence to the every day operation of the DeFi yield somebody. 

The price of Yearn (YFI) and Fantom (FTM) crashed directly following Nell’s tweet. YFI is presently down regarding 10% to $18,187 whereas FTM is down 20% to $1.33 per CoinGecko. 

Although the total value locked (TVL) at Yearn has remained fairly steady at $3 billion, Fantom TVL is down 40% since Mar. 3 to $7.16 billion. The TVL of Cronje’s latest project, Solidly, has dropped 68% since Mar. 3 to $735 million these days per DeFiLlama. 

Cronje has been one amongst the foremost powerful characters in DeFi since its rise to prominence at intervals the crypto area. His contributions to the trade are thus profound that analyst The DeFi Edge on Twitter lamented his feat and said “Andre Cronje is that the Godfather of DeFi” during a March 6 tweet. 


( Brian Newar, Cointelegraph, 2022 )