🌾 The Last Day of Harvest

How we turned 40Acres into the most fertile ground in DeFi

They said we’d never grow anything. That a protocol built for veNFT Couldn’t scale. Couldn’t sustain. Couldn’t compete.

We had a vision.
40 days.
A field.
A mule.
And a whole lot of yield.

So we planted. And you? You showed up. You voted. You borrowed. You reinvested. You harvested.

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🌱 What We Planted

We shipped features. Every single week for 6 weeks straight.

• Manual voting for Aerodrome and Velodrome pools, empowering users with direct governance.

• Automatic USDC Top Up, ensuring timely access to credit lines.

• Delegated Repayment, enabling pooled yield to accelerate loan paydowns

• Reinvest, for auto-compounding rewards into veNFTs

• Merge and increase lock, now you don’t even need to leave 40acres to grow your veNFT.

• Custom Relayer, allowing users to swap rewards into their preferred tokens.

• Socialized Flight School, making high-yield programs accessible to all through community pooling

• Lending Details Page, check your withdrawal and deposit, and profit at a glance

Ya’ll are using these features!!! Nearly 50% of users adopted manual voting and reinvest, and over 25% used the Top Up feature.

All of this culminated in unbelievable growth during 40Days of Harvest

• We have grown TVL from 5.5m to over $28 million

• Underwritten over $6 million in loans!

• Grown loans outstanding to nearly 3 million!

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🛠 What’s Growing Next

This isn’t the end of the road. It is the start of a new seasons.

Here’s what’s coming:

• Token-Specific Lending Vaults: fixed 40% LTV vaults for AERO, VELO, and more

• veNFT Marketplace: buy/sell veNFTs (even with loans attached)

• Flashloan Leverage Tools: powered by the community’s credit line

• Standardized protocol fee: At the start of July the 40acres protocol fee will swith to a flat fee of 5% on rewards processed

• Variable Borrowing Fees: Borrowers will be charged based on vaults utilization, no more flat 20% fee.

• 🔴🟣⚫️ New markets: All ve33 dexes need 40acres and a mule 🔴🟣⚫️

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🫏 40Acres has arrived

We did this by listening to our users, focusing on our product and building a great community.

40days of harvest may have ended but the new fields are almost ready for harvest.

Thank you for being part of this journey. The fields are ripe, and the future is bright. Let’s keep building, one acre at a time.

🫏 40Acres Team 🌾