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Weeb McGee

Weeb McGee

Weeb McGee (born John Lim) is a Korean-American computer programmer and Crypto Twitter personality based in New York City. He is best known as the creator of yieldfarming.info, a Website that calculates the yield of DeFi protocols. [4] [1] [2]

Yieldfarming.info

McGee entered the DeFi market in June 2020, after Compound began rewarding customers with free governance tokens that allowed them vote on network changes or sell at a profit. [1]

The move by Compound introduced a new concept in the Blockchain industry called 'yield farming'. Like crop fields, Yield farming refers to those who stake their resources in pools to maximize yields. [1]

On the homepage of McGee's site, users are presented with a farmer meme and the quote “It ain't much, but it's honest work,” the slogan of the site.

[4] It displays all the yield-farming opportunities in an easy to digest list, how much is in each pool, and current APY.

[4]

McGee was recognized by Decrypt as being one of the first people to calculate the yields of different DeFi lending protocols. [1]

On June 20, 2020, Lim publicly launched yieldfarming.info.

He began listing 'yield farming' tokens and saw it rise in popularity among the cryptocurrency. The site runs no ads and receives 100,000 to 200,000 page views a day.

Reactions

In a Decrypt feature, Lim is considered the go to authority on all things DeFi and the site he built acts as a springboard to the entire emerging market.[1]

He told Decrypt:

After building the tool, I'm like—it must be a secret,”.“it just felt weird not sharing it in some way."

Eric Conner, a product research at Gnosis (cryptocurrency) called Lim's site a very valuable resource for the DeFi community.

Trivia

  • Weeb McGee's real name is John Lim

  • Lim is in his early 20's

  • He has created DApps based around memes earlier in 2020

References

[1]
Citation Linkdecrypt.coMeet Weeb McGee: DeFi’s mystery man and Yieldfarming.info founder
Aug 11, 2020, 7:22 AM
[2]
Citation Linktwitter.comWeeb McGee on Twitter
Aug 11, 2020, 7:23 AM
[3]
Citation Linkywqaugeunhowzrcj.public.blob.vercel-storage.comScreenshot of the homepage of yieldfarming.info
Aug 12, 2020, 12:39 AM
[4]
Citation Linkyieldfarming.infoyieldfarming.info
Aug 12, 2020, 12:40 AM