Yields Of The Week: Feb 15 - Feb 21 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:

14.45% - Euler Yield USDC

13.60% - Euler Base USDS

12.52% - sDOLA

12.23% - Ionic Ecosystem USDC

12.17% - Seamless USDC Vault

Full list below:

Bonus: Syrup Finance has been netting around 20% APY on USDC or USDT lending. Right now about ~13.5% is real yield and the other ~7% is Drips which can be redeemed for their governance token SYRUP. They have a neat mechanism where if you commit to a longer lending duration you can generate more yield by netting a higher emission of Drips:

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:

7.56% - Euler Prime WETH (Mainnet)

5.70% - Instadapp ETH v2

5.07% - Euler Base WETH (Base)

5.01% - Euler Prime cbBTC

4.61% - Compound v3 WETH

Full list below:

Bonus: Tokemak had a new Autopool rise to the top of the ranks this week with their BaseETH pool. The yields are very strong at 13.76% and most of that is base yield (12.31%ETH + 1.41% TOKE)

Yield Trading

Pendle - It’s been a while since we’ve scanned the top PT yields on Pendle. Here’s what the top BTC, ETH and Stable PT yields look like across the board:

ETH

BTC

Stables

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.

Gearbox has become a mainstay in this section as there’s always very high stable, BTC and ETH looping opportunities.

The Sky Rewards Rate currently has an extremely high APR of 91.68%:

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