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I have never heard of any of these entities. Were they big?

I found it hard to tell which words were and were not part of proper nouns, and which were organizations or things and which were people, in this headline. It reads like gibberish.

As is common when someone is not familiar with an industry or concept, titles become hard to read.

To help you, I have made the names in italics and then even you could maybe understand this title.

> Cronje Quits Crypto, Abandons Fantom, Yearn Finance

Speaking about titles, what do you think about this one?

> Enhanced Cycling Stability of Macroporous Bulk Antimony‐Based Sodium‐Ion Battery Anodes Enabled through Active/Inactive Composites

How am I (or you), a person who have no experience in whatever the subject is about, supposed to know what it is about?!

Absolute gibberish! Or maybe, a title is written for people who are actually in that industry?

The second is much easier to read as a layperson because it contains punctuation, articles, and prepositions.

Your example is much easier to parse, and I know far less about that than about the industry in the HN title.

yearn finance had as much as $5B locked in assets

source: https://www.defipulse.com/projects/yearn.finance

I'm not really into the ecosystem but I do read about it once in a while and I did hear about "yearn" for sure. So I think they aren't that small.

Solidity is the dominant language to write smart contracts. See https://github.com/ethereum/solidity

The entity that is referred to in the article as shutting down is 'Solidly'

Solidity was not mentioned in the article or this comment thread (aside from your comment).

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