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Yields Of The Week: Feb 22 - Feb 28 2025
Curating The Best Yields In DeFi
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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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:
17.21% - MEV Capital Usual USDC
14.02% - Resolv USDC
13.68% - Apostro Resolv USDC
13.58% - Euler Yield USDC
13.32% - Resolv RLP
Full list below:
Min $10M TVL
I normally keep a lot of the yields I share relatively conservative with teams I know and have developed some level of trust with. I essentially like to keep this to things I would put my own money into. That said, I also want to be highlighting some of the newer and emerging opportunities. There seems to be a lot going on in the Sonic and Berachain ecosystems and I think they are worth sharing, but use at your own risk of course.
Bonus: Shadow on Sonic has some really nice opportunities. One for stables with no IL is this USDC.e/USDT Pool:
Note: The 635.2% APR is fluctuating like crazy and is derived in ~50% xShadow and 50% GEMS
The above yield is fluctuating a lot between 100% - 600% and its also contingent on how you place your tick width as this is a concentrated liquidity (CL) pool. There’s lots of explainers on the site once you click on the “deposit” button.
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:
10.95% - Instadapp ETH v2
7.53% - Euler Prime WETH (Mainnet)
5.81% - Gauntlet WETH Core
5.42% - Seamless WETH Vault
5.19% - MEV Capital WETH
Full list below:
Min $10M TVL
Bonus: Another Shadow pool for scETH/WETH yielding 141.7% at the time I clipped this, but the aggressive tick position in this CL pool is bouncing around quite a lot.
Bonus: Tokemak’s BaseETH is still killing it. The yields are very strong at 13.93% and most of that is base yield (12.57%ETH + 1.36% TOKE)
Yield Trading
Pendle - Pendle has expanded to Sonic! You can find this LP here.
Some of the best PT yields across ETH, BTC and Stables
ETH
6.82% - 9.76%
BTC
8.06% - 11.99%
Stables
17.35% - 19.07%
Some new names on here after the stables sector on Pendle was somewhat dominated by Ethena, Usual and Resolv:
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 highlighting Build On Bitcoin (BOB) this week as Euler expanded there and has some crazy strategies that have some nice incentives. Check out these two below for solvBTC and LBTC:
This strategy is juiced with some OP rewards and rEUL
This strategy is juiced with some OP rewards and rEUL
One more here from Euler who is now on Sonic as well. There’s some decent yields under their “Strategies” tab on Sonic and as far as I know, the Sonic rewards aren’t showing there yet.
I’ve toggled on “correlated only” assets
A few things worth calling out here:
I don’t believe Euler UI is tracking Sonic points yet as part of these rewards, so there could be additional ROE still to come.
The yields with the stars beside them reflect Max ROE on real yield + points/rewards
If you want to turn off rewards you need to have your wallet connected and go into the settings tab and toggle this off
Below is the same image, but with rewards turned off:
Having rewards turned off paints a different picture. There’s still some nice opportunities to be had, but it all depends on what you’re going after.
That’s all for now, thanks for checking it out!
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