WHAT IS ERC-4626?
ERC-4626
is a tokenized vault standard. Vaults are smart contracts that take in token deposits and do something with those tokens to provide token rewards to the depositor.
Standardizing vault implementations makes it easier for applications, plugins, and tools to integrate with vaults.
Rather than building many custom adapters for each vault implementation, applications can easily build on top of any vault following theERC-4626
standard.
ERC-4626
is to vaults whatERC-721
is to NFTs.
WHY ERC-4626?
Tokenized Vaults have a lack of standardization leading to diverse implementation details.
Some various examples include lending markets, aggregators, and intrinsically interest bearing tokens. This makes integration difficult at the aggregator or plugin layer for protocols which need to conform to many standards, and forces each protocol to implement their own adapters which are error prone and waste development resources.
A standard for tokenized Vaults will lower the integration effort for yield-bearing vaults, while creating more consistent and robust implementation patterns.
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ERC-4626 News

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How ERC-4626 Could Fuel the Next Wave of DeFi
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Yearn Vaults v3 shipped w/t ERC-4626
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ERC4626: A new standard for DeFi applications
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DeFi in Ether: Biweekly update on Ethereum DeFi ecosystem vol.54, 24th May — 7th June
DeFi in Ether: $49.6B in DeFi, mStable Save gets ERC-4626 upgrade, Maker now connected to StarkNet, Balancer now live on Optimism, STAKE ←→ GNO token merge is complete, The 0xpo Summit 2022 announced, Bancor 3 roll-out update, and much more! | by Paradigm | Paradigm | Jun, 2022 | Medium

Why ERC-4626 could power DeFi’s innovation wave
Chainbound is a research & development organization focused on public blockchains. This is the first in a series of articles which we believe will shape Chainbound’s mission in the years to come
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Tweets about EIP-4626
The ERC-4626 Tokenized Vault Standard is ready for final review 😎
— Joey 💚’s ERC-4626 (@joey__santoro)January 12, 2022
Get your giga chad brains churning on how this standard will revolutionize DeFi 🧠
Be sure to share any proposed changes on the thread:https://t.co/ArchwpUNn4
Here is a summary of the proposed design 👇You’ve heard of ERC-20s, ERC-721s and ERC-1155s
— yearn (@iearnfinance)April 5, 2022
Soon you shall know ERC-4626s
The Tokenized Vault Standard (ERC-4626) is final. And the Great Vault Standardization begins now
tl;dr 👇ERC-4626 will be a huge game changer and 99% of#DeFifolks are sleeping on it. 🧐
— 0xSassun (@0xSassun)May 6, 2022
In short ERC-4626 is a Tokenized Vault Standard.
Let's dive into it👇