What is yield farming vs staking?

Yield farming is the process of token holders maximizing rewards across various DeFi platforms . Yield farmers provide liquidity to various token pairs and earn rewards in cryptocurrencies. Top yield farming protocols include Aave, Curve Finance, Uniswap and many others.23 Şub 2022

In yield farming, you lend your money to a trading platform with automated market-making (AMM) system . Some decentralized trading platforms (DEX) rely on their liquidity being crowd-sourced like this.6 Oca 2022

Yield Farming is a more recent concept than staking, yet sharing a lot of similarities. While yield farming supplies liquidity to a DeFi protocol in exchange for yield, staking can refer to actions like locking up 32 ETH to become a validator node on the Ethereum 2.0 network .