DeFi companies are breaking down his virtual doors to get listed on his site, investors want to hire him as a financial advisor, and a patron is even footing his website bills.

>"By day, John Lim is a rank-and-file NYC tech grunt, punching out code until he clocks out each day. By night, Lim turns into DeFi superman Weeb McGee"

A great little write up about one of the main characters involved in the recent yeildfarming craze and some of the ethical dilemmas they found themselves in. "New York City tech grunt, punching out code until he clocks out each day. By night, Lim turns into the DeFi superman Weeb McGee—his secret alter-ego who built one of the most popular tools in decentralized finance: [yieldfarming.info](http://yieldfarming.info) .   The tool was among the first to calculate exactly how insanely profitable certain DeFi yield farming protocols have become. Lim estimates that his site got around a million pageviews a day at its peak, traffic that’s been helping to establish Weeb McGee as one of the biggest influencers in decentralized finance."

[https://relevant.community/crypto/post/5f2f3ca265f1f700176e7f61](https://relevant.community/crypto/post/5f2f3ca265f1f700176e7f61)

DeFi took off in earnest this year when long-term HODLers began earning interest on their money by lending it out on protocols such as Compound, Aave and Maker. Then came a bigger breakthrough: In June, Compound, began rewarding customers with free governance tokens that they could use to vote on network changes or sell at a profit. Many others followed suit.

>"By day, John Lim is a rank-and-file NYC tech grunt, punching out code until he clocks out each day. By night, Lim turns into DeFi superman Weeb McGee"