Yields Of The Week: Feb 8 - Feb 14 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:

14.85% - Ether.Fi Liquid USD

12.91% - Savings xDAI (sDAI)

12.86% - Syrup USDC

12.26% - Euler Prime USDC

12.26% - Tulipa Resolv USDC

Full list below:

Bonus: There’s still not a lot of TVL here, but keeping an eye on this f(x) protocol vault curated by Re7. It’s currently yielding 20.78% APY (native yield + FXN + Morpho)

Bonus: The Moonwell Flagship USDC vault is great for passive yield. It’s currently netting 9.12% APY (native yield + MORPHO + WELL)

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:

5.98%- Seamless cbBTC Vault

5.33% - Ionic Ecosystem WETH

5.19% - Instadapp ETH v2

4.80% - Compound v3 WETH

4.79% - Euler Prime WETH

Full list below:

Bonus: The Puffer Finance vaults have some very impressive yields that are going under the radar and they just recently kicked off a campaign to juice these yields even further.

This includes ETH, BTC and USD yields.

Including CARROT:

UniFi ETH 16.67% APY

UniFi BTC 130.63% APY

UniFi USD 114.95%

(CARROT is an ERC 20 and can be sold or exchange later for PUFFER)

Here’s a view of these vaults:

Here’s their announcement of the campaign:

Bonus: Tokemak launched a new Autopool this week in partnership with Dinero and the yields are very strong at 13.37% (7.64 ETH + 5.72% TOKE)

^The Tokemak team make some of the coolest promo videos in DeFi

Bonus: DeFi Dojo is back with another definitive ETH yield thread that’s worth checking out for new ideas to utilize your ETH:

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

Yield Trading

Pendle - This Ethena LP is yielding up to 67% APY. You can check it out for yourself here

Hourglass - The Hourglass team have created an interesting vault with Lombard. It’s advertising a 6% yield on LBTC + a lot of different point exposure. Read this tweet to see how it all works and you have to watch the video its so creative 😂 :

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 the JLP Multiply Vault on Kamino this week. The UI is very clean and easy to use. I loaded in an example of what a $10k position would net with 2.5x leverage and it shows a return of 33.91% APY right now:

Also, if you scroll down on the UI there’s a good info box with more details on liquidation risk for this vault:

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

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