Yields Of The Week: Jan 04 - Jan 10, 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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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

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding stablecoin pools for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi and what we could dig up:

24.15% - Apostro Resolv USDC

23.65% - Euler Yield USDC

22.95% - Gauntlet eUSD Core

22.32% - Convex Curve Lending sDOLA/crvUSD

22.30% - Stablecoin Maxi USDC

Full list below:

Bonus: Term Finance has some great passive yield under the “Earn” tab that are easy to click into and get exposure to predictable yield that’s not paid out in an inflationary token.

They also have their vaults coming very soon 👀 (stay tuned, we’ll have more on that coming)

ETH & BTC Yields

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

16.83 - Swaap Lend WETH

13.52% - Seamless cbBTC

10.61% - Euler Prime TBTC

10.28% - Euler Prime wBTC

7.89% - Euler Prime CBETH

Full list below:

Yield Trading

Pendle - The biggest news to me this week on Pendle is how they appear to be leaning into Berachain. Follow the Pendle Intern for all the alpha:

Spectra - Currently on Spectra you can get 33% - 35% yields for GHO between:

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.

This strategy involves Resolv and Euler, two teams we’ve written up a decent amount on YOTW. Euler just became the first spot to loop Resolv’s USR:

(Disclaimer: Resolv USR yield is reliant on ETH funding rates being positive - low rates + high borrow fees could make looping unprofitable in the current environment)

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