DeFi Yield Farming

Paper link:

Cousaert, S., Xu, J., & Matsui, T. (2021). SoK: Yield Aggregators in DeFi. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9805523

Xu, J. & Feng, Y. (2022). Reap the Harvest on Blockchain: A Survey of Yield Farming Protocols. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2022.3222815

yieldenv

Environment for yield generators

Setup

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/xujiahuayz/yieldAggregators.git
cd yieldAggregators

Create a python virtual environment

• Mac OS

python3 -m venv venv

• Windows

python -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment

• iOS

. venv/bin/activate

• Windows (in Command Prompt, NOT Powershell)

venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Install the project in editable mode

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Connect to a full node to fetch on-chain data

Connect to a full node using ssh with port forwarding flag -L on:

imperial node

ssh -L 8545:localhost:8545 satoshi.doc.ic.ac.uk

Assign URI value to WEB3_PROVIDER_URI in a new terminal:

set -xg WEB3_PROVIDER_URI http://localhost:8545

Git Large File Storage (Git LFS)

All files in data/ are stored with lfs:

git lfs track data/**/*