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# Automatic yield harvesting

Yield harvesting refers to the incentives offered by DeFi applications to attract liquidity by offering extra yield in the form of issuing extra protocol tokens to be paid out to liquidity providers. While it remains to be seen whether these incentives will keep being popular among DeFi applications, in some cases they still offer very interesting opportunities. Our vaults will automatically swap the protocol tokens that have been received by these yield harvesting opportunities for extra yield.