Berachain is alive and kicking, and it didn’t take till Q5 2025 to launch.
With a total TVL of $3.14 billion, 168.8k weekly active addresses, and 11.81 million weekly transactions, things are looking pretty good. The ecosystem is filled with interesting products that leverage Berachain’s proof of liquidity (POL) system, with Yeet being one of the most impressive ones.
Wait what? The same Yeet that offers the Bonzinomic game?
Yes anon, the same. You see, you underestimated the Yeetards thinking all they had in the locker was one game.
Although the game is a big part of the product offering, the team at Yeet is looking to go beyond and create products that leverage Berachain’s POL consensus mechanism while also benefiting the broader product ecosystem on the chain.
One such product is YeetBonds.
What are YeetBonds?
To understand YeetBonds, we need to take a mini DeFi history lesson and talk about bonds in crypto.
The concept of bonds was popularized in 2021 by Olympus DAO.
The bonding mechanism came about because the Olympus DAO team wanted to create an alternative to centralized stablecoins. They had the idea of making OHM a first-of-its-kind decentralized reserve currency.
But, to achieve this, they needed a stacked treasury.
To get this stacked treasury, they offered bonds. Users could purchase OHM at a discounted rate using coins like USDC, USDT, ETH, and whatever other tokens the protocol wanted to acquire.
Coins are usually offered at a discount because they’re subject to a lock-up period before they become sellable.
With this, the Olympus DAO managed to build a treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars by selling the OHM token.
Eventually, the whole decentralized reserve currency myth went down the drain, and they went full ponzi with 1,093,082% staking APYs, which eventually crashed the whole thing. But that’s beside the point. The bonding mechanism they developed was game-changing.
The concept of bonding meant that protocols could now own their liquidity rather than relying on other ways to build a treasury and allocate to liquidity pools to earn fees from the trading volume of their token.
Protocol-owned liquidity (PoL) took over, and it is exactly this mechanism that the Yeet team will be implementing with YeetBonds.
The reason YeetBonds are different is because it combines the powers of proof of liquidity with protocol owned liquidity to create .
How are YeetBonds different?
Put simply, YeetBonds are different because they are perfectly catered to the Berachain ecosystem.
The main partner for YeetBonds is Bond Protocol. They will be helping with the technical side of things.
When protocols issue a YeetBond for their token, they can accept any ERC-20 token—stablecoins, LP tokens, or any other strategic assets.
It is a peer-to-peer system rather than an AMM which means it is slippage free. Lastly, the lock-up period for YeetBonds is short—roughly 2-7 day lock-ups.
Arguably the biggest difference between YeetBonds and bonding protocols on other chains is how it works with the POL system.
By bonding with LP tokens, a protocol will own more of its liquidity, which means it will earn more fees and, at the same time, pay out less in bribes and incentives since it controls the liquidity.
On top of this, the LP tokens can be used in gauges and bribes to farm BGT or even assets like iBGT.
So, through YeetBonds, protocols can build out a treasury, pay less/earn more through LP tokens, and farm BGT rewards through Berachain's proof of liquidity.
That’s a win-win-win. That’s what you call .
Why YeetBonds matter?
There are two reasons why YeetBonds are important.
- The benefit to Yeet as a protocol
- The benefit to the Berachain ecosystem
Let’s start with the Berachain ecosystem.
First and foremost, protocols now have a great avenue to diversify their treasuries. They can either increase their reserves through stablecoins or BERA tokens, or they can acquire LP tokens to own liquidity, earn fees, and also farm BGT rewards. Depending on the protocol’s goals, they get flexibility through YeetBonds.
Second, it’s a great way to acquire strategic assets. Suppose there’s a protocol that relies on acquiring as much BERA as possible. It can be done very simply through YeetBonds.
Third, it’s a great way for the protocol to raise funds after the TGE if they need to without them needing to sell tokens into a liquidity pool or mint more tokens and create inflationary pressure.
Last but not least, different types of Berachian users also benefit. If you’re a user who is a long-time believer in a certain protocol, acquiring the tokens through bonds is basically a no-brainer since you get a discount.
If you’re a whale who owns a large chunk of a token's supply, YeetBonds act as a form of permissionless OTC. Rather than nuking the coin by selling it into the open market, the whale can make a YeetBond and sell the tokens for a slight discount, which people will gladly buy.
When it comes to Yeet as a protocol, it can benefit by making a YeetBond of its own YEET token and using it to raise money or farm BGT. Secondly, the protocol will benefit from fees earned through the usage of YeetBonds, which will cycle back to benefit YEET holders.
Basically, everyone in the Berachain ecosystem can benefit from YeetBonds in multiple ways. All you have to do is yeet.
Concluding thoughts
Despite the market being in a dire state at the time of writing, the Beras are still cooking. It’s no surprise given how strong that community is.
Eventually, when the skies start to clear, the work behind the scenes will pay off and Yeet will be a big benefactor of this. Although the memes and yeetardedness may throw off your average normie, you should know better than to get fooled by that because the team is sharp.
As the Berachain ecosystem grows, YeetBonds as a product sort of places itself perfectly in between protocols and users, offering flexibility over strategy, which means the product will most definitely get significant traction.
So if you ask me whether to yeet or not to yeet, the answer is always to yeet. Stay yeetarded longer than they can stay solvent.
