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The Compound protocol launched in September 2018 and was one of the earliest on-chain lending markets.
Compound v2, launched in 2019, introduced cTokens: receipts you receive when depositing assets, whose value grows as interest accrues.
The most important thing to keep in mind when managing funds: when participating in liquidity mining, factor in the possibility that reward tokens may fall in value when calculating returns. The displayed annualized yield often changes quickly.
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