YO Protocol
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YO Protocol (yo.xyz), operated by YO Labs, is a San Francisco-based multi-chain DeFi yield optimization protocol founded by former Uber and Amazon executives and backed by Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and Foundation Capital with $24 million in total funding. Independent security research published in September 2025 identified significant centralization risks, MEV attack vectors, and EIP-4626 compliance gaps that existing audits had not fully addressed. No hacks, exploits, or regulatory actions have been publicly confirmed against the protocol; a claimed ZachXBT flag has not been corroborated by any findable public source as of May 2026.
Connected Entities
1 entities- + 5 more
Timeline(14 events)
October 2022
Exponential (later rebranded to YO Labs) raises $14 million seed round led by Paradigm, with FTX Ventures, Haun Ventures, Polygon, Solana Ventures, and Circle participating.
11 November 2022
FTX, a seed-round investor via FTX Ventures, collapses and files for bankruptcy amid fraud charges against founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
11 July 2024
Exponential.fi launches an all-in-one DeFi investing platform, setting the foundation for the YO Protocol rebrand.
15 January 2025
Offbeat Security completes audit of the yoVault contract, finding no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
21 January 2025
Hunter Security completes audit of the yoVault contract.
5 May 2025
YO Protocol's Immunefi bug bounty program goes live with a $10,000 maximum bounty for critical vulnerabilities.
29 May 2025
Spearbit completes audit of yoVault; audit confirms the onUnderlyingBalanceUpdate function can be sandwiched by MEV bots.
16 September 2025
Independent researcher Parlan publishes 'Yo Protocol's Unseen Dangers: Why Code Audits Aren't Enough,' identifying centralization, MEV, accounting, and EIP-4626 compliance risks.
13 December 2025
YO Labs raises $10 million Series A led by Foundation Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Launchpad Capital participating, bringing total funding to $24 million.
30 January 2026
YO Protocol announces $YO token and tokenomics: 1 billion total supply, 8% genesis airdrop, 24% to core contributors, 16.5% to investors.
5 February 2026
Genesis airdrop claim portal opens for early depositors and points program participants.
24 February 2026
Zellic completes security audit of the yoVault Solana deployment.
13 April 2026
Accretion completes second audit of the yoVault Solana deployment.
6 May 2026
Genesis airdrop claim window closes.
Decision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 13 of 14 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:19 AM
last updated: 8/30/2026, 12:05:00 PM
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