Both projects are new (2020) DeFi projects. After researching tons of alts, the thing that stood out to me about these is that they're both doing something completely new/innovative. Orion Protocol is building a super exchange that is a culmination of all exchange order books combined. Yield Bank is building what is essentially a massive DeFi crypto bank with lending, loans where LP tokens can be used as collateral, decentralized margin/futures trading, and more. It also has a 2 token system where the price of the main token (yB) is supported through burning/buyback mechanisms.
It's still early days for these tokens, both have products on the verge of release. What do you guys think of them?
One can say that DeFi projects actually had their time, this is because few months ago, it was all about DeFi projects in every corner of the crypto space but nowadays, the hype is downtrending and many are getting hacked thus making investors and users to ask questions about the genuineness of these DeFi projects and if actually the team are worthy enough. Nevertheless, just as you rightly said, they are offering new ideas but that is one thing, while implementing and working on those ideas is the real deal, therefore it would be wise to study the experiences of the team to be sure they are capable of handling what they are promising, however, will check to understand more about them.