Yields Of The Week: Feb 1 - Feb 7 2025

Welcome to Yields of the Week! Every Friday, we spotlight the top DeFi yields across the crypto landscape, focusing on opportunities that are not just the highest APYs but also sustainable and unique opportunities. Whether you're new to DeFi or a seasoned degen, our goal is to help you navigate the yield farming space with confidence. Expect hands-on tutorials, expert strategies, and everything you need to master the digital asset space—starting with the best yields the market has to offer. Let’s dive into this week’s picks!

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🖥️ PYTH | SMARTER DATA FOR SMARTER CONTRACTS

⌛️ HOURGLASS | LEVERAGE AIRDROP FARMING

🪄 TANSSI | LAUNCH YOUR SYMBIOTIC RESTAKED NETWORK IN MINUTES

📈 ⁠iYIELD | YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE, SIMPLIFIED

🧪 MANTLE | START YOUR RESTAKING JOURNEY TODAY WITH CMETH

🐡 PUFFER FINANCE | LIQUID RESTAKING FOR THE LITTLE FISH

🌔 MOONWELL | THE LEADING LENDING AND BORROWING APP ON BASE

🐐 ⁠GOAT NETWORK⁠ | A BITCOIN L2 TO EARN WITH BTC & DOGE

⚙️ GEARBOX PROTOCOL | ONCHAIN LENDING REIMAGINED

📈 DEFINITIVE | THE MOST ADVANCED PLATFORM FOR ONCHAIN TRADING

Before we get started, this is never a recommendation or endorsement to buy any token(s) mentioned, and here’s a few risks to consider:

• Smart contract risk in any underlying protocols

• Pool size and liquidity depth

• Front-end spoof attack on an app frontend

• An economic design exploit

• Colluding signers on any multisig

• Systemic risk across DeFi, including stablecoin depegs

Stablecoin Yields

(Note: we’ve upped all minimum TVL thresholds from $1M to $10M)

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding stablecoin pools for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:

21.61% - Ether.Fi Liquid USD

15.84% - MEV Capital Usual USDC (note: this pool has >75% exposure to USD0++ which has an $0.87 hard floor and is currently sitting at $0.941 and could very well be back on its way closer to $1.00 with some of the new mechanisms and incentives the team is working on, but worth flagging this as the yield could be misleading if it continues to oscillate around in this range)

15.72% - Hakutora USDC

14.89% - Gauntlet DAI Core

14.47% - Smokehouse USDC

Full list below:

Bonus: Liquity V2 is live and some of the stability pools have been offering nice yields. I believe they also shot up quite high during last weeks selloff and performed very well in a major market volatility test. You can see some of the 7 day APR yields below:

One thing to keep in mind is that sBOLD is coming which will represent a liquid and composable version of these stability pools all rolled into one. This is a product being developed independently by K3 Capital. This will offer greater composobility across DeFi which reduces frictions and makes the asset even more enticing to hold. Also, something I’m hearing is sBOLD will be coming to Pendle. Why I think that’s interesting is it will no doubt offer a strong PT yield component, BUT V2 has already been forked 15 times and I think there will be a way to accrue a lot of airdrop potential on the YT side via sBOLD. I’m still speculating and putting some pieces together here, but so far, this is what I’m hearing (insert hearing things meme).

Bonus: I still love the ease and convenience of this Term Finance vault product. It allows Term depositors to accrue high passive real yields. The vaults are managed by risk curators and assets will either be in fixed-term loans on Term or deposited in AAVE. The curators will have the latitude to rebalance assets into whatever is the higher rate. Read more about it here:

ETH & BTC Yields

(Note: we’ve upped all minimum TVL thresholds from $1M to $10M)

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding ETH and BTC pools for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:

13.64% - Instadapp ETH v2

7.83%- Index Coop hyETH

7.37% - Ionic Ecosystem WETH

6.34% - Re7 WETH

5.97% - Gauntlet WETH Core (Base)

Full list below:

Bonus: DeFi Dad wrote up a thread + article on his 12 favorite ETH yields this week. You can check it out here:

Also, here’s a link to the article:

Bonus: Some Neutral Trade opportunities for SOL, ETH and BTC:

Bonus: Tokemak Autopools continue to be a strong source of yield with their flagship AutoETH. The AutoETH pool is currently yielding 8.44% (4% base + 4.44% TOKE):

Yield Trading

Pendle - If you missed it, Pendle published their 2025 Roadmap this week called Zenith:

Also, Treehouse has one of the best sources of fixed yield for ETH on Pendle right now (15.41% APY). Check this out:

Leverage Looping Yields

Looping can be a very effective leverage strategy to earn more yield, but one must be cautious to monitor borrowing rates, and liquidations which are a necessary cost to generate such leveraged yields (we don’t recommend max leverage). It’s also important to know if you’re going after points or real yield when looping.

We’re going back to Gearbox again this week for looping as there are a number of great opportunities that stand out under their “Farm” tab:

The Sky Savings Rate at 73.63% APR is very attractive right now, especially with the basis trade tokens of Ethena and Resolv yields being lowered during the market cooldown.

That’s all for now, thanks for checking it out!

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