Andre Cronje is a South African software developer and cryptocurrency /Defi Decentralized Finance) an entrepreneur who is best known as the founder of Yearn Finance. He participated in high-profile Defi projects such as Akropolish, Cover, Cream v2, etc. He is one of the most powerful figures in the Defi community. influential people in the Defi space.
He started working in the cryptocurrency industry in recent years, having such positions as Blockchain Protocol Advisor at BitDiem, Blockchain infrastructure Engineer at CryptoCurve, and Technology Analyst at Lemniscal. He became interested in Crypto at the end of the 2017 Bitcoin Bull run. He started studying crypto whitepapers and GitHub repositories. As his interest in cryptocurrencies grew, he began doing code reviews for crypto briefing. He also started working for the ICO- funded project Fantom, a South Korean blockchain platform.
His some of the noted achievements are; he launched Yearn (YFI) and Keep3rV1, Binary options partnership with hectic, Pickle and yearn ferment co-operation dill Yearn and Cover merger, power pool and Yearn ecosystem partnership, Yearn and Cream V2 merger, Yearn and akropolis merger and yearns and Sushiswap collaboration, etc.