3/V3 changed the mechanics slightly by creating an Omnipool of $BNT.
With the Omnipool, no need to choose in which pool to stake your BNT.
It also reduces transaction and gas fees.
4/ V2 also had IL protection, but you had to stake tokens for at least 100 days.
V3 boasts with Instant IL protection.
The protocol uses fees earned from its co-investments of BNT in Omnipool to compensate for the network-wide cost of IL.
5/ It seems like there is still a possibility that part of the IL protection could come from minting NEW $BNT tokens that are distributed instead of the originally staked token.
Keep in mind that there is a 0.25% withdrawal fee and 7 day cool down.
Yet yield for $DAI is high.
6/ Yield aggregators prospered thanks to their autocompound feature.
Yet, yield aggregators take their own cut in deposit/withdrawal fees, 'harvesting' fees etc.
Bancor V3 addition of Compounding Rewards maximizes yield and reduces gas costs.
7/ There are more features, such as Dual-Sided Rewards, Multichain and L2 support etc, but those three changes are what every #DeFi yield farmer is looking for.
• 1990s Internet: "Let it grow!" -> Few rules, lots of freedom.
• 2000s/10s Social media: "This is dangerous. Control it!"
• 2020s Crypto/AI: Battle between openness vs. regulation.
Interestingly China is open-sourcing AI while US closed